1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 432 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2001; January 30, 2001, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human 1-4 Services; March 12, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; 1-6 March 12, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 432 By: Carona 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the transportation of certain persons admitted to a 1-11 county mental health facility for mental health services. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 574, Health and Safety 1-14 Code, is amended by adding Section 574.0025 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 574.0025. TRANSPORTATION AFTER FILING APPLICATION FOR 1-16 CERTAIN PERSONS. (a) A county mental health facility that has 1-17 completed a preliminary examination of a person for whom an 1-18 application for court-ordered mental health services is filed may 1-19 transport the person to: 1-20 (1) a facility of the single portal authority for the 1-21 service area; 1-22 (2) an appropriate inpatient mental health facility, 1-23 if no single portal authority serves the area; or 1-24 (3) a facility considered suitable by the county's 1-25 mental health authority, if no single portal authority serves the 1-26 area and an appropriate inpatient mental health facility is not 1-27 available. 1-28 (b) The requirements prescribed by Section 574.045 for 1-29 transporting a patient apply to a person transported under this 1-30 section. 1-31 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-32 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-33 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 1-34 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 1-35 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-36 * * * * *