H.B. No. 2384




AN ACT

relating to the composition of the Advisory Committee to the Texas 
Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental 
Impairments.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 614.002(e), Health and Safety Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(e)  The executive head of each of the following agencies, 
divisions of agencies, or associations, or that person's designated 
representative, shall serve as a member of the committee:
		(1)  the institutional division of the Texas Department 
of Criminal Justice;
		(2)  the Department of State Health Services [Texas 
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation];
		(3)  the pardons and paroles division of the Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice;
		(4)  the community justice assistance division of the 
Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
		(5)  the state jail division of the Texas Department of 
Criminal Justice;   
		(6)  the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;                                 
		(7)  the Texas Youth Commission;                                              
		(8)  the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative 
Services [Texas Rehabilitation Commission];
		(9)  the Texas Education Agency;                                              
		(10)  the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee 
[Criminal Justice Policy Council];
		(11)  the Mental Health Association in Texas;                                 
		(12)  the Board of Pardons and Paroles [Texas 
Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse];
		(13)  the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer 
Standards and Education;    
		(14)  the Texas Council of Community Mental Health and 
Mental Retardation Centers;
		(15)  the Commission on Jail Standards;                                       
		(16)  the Texas Council for Developmental 
Disabilities;                     
		(17)  the Texas Association for Retarded Citizens;                            
		(18)  the National [Texas] Alliance for the Mentally 
Ill of Texas;
		(19)  the Parent Association for the Retarded of Texas, 
Inc.;               
		(20)  the Health and Human Services Commission [Texas 
Department of Human Services]; and
		(21)  the Department of Aging and Disability Services
[Texas Department on Aging].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2384 was passed by the House on April 
22, 2005, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2384 was passed by the Senate on May 
25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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                 Governor