79R8884 MFC-D


By:  Madden, Noriega                                              H.B. No. 2384



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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(a), Health and Safety Code, as 
amended by Chapters 856 and 1170, Acts of the 78th Legislature, 
Regular Session, 2003, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal 
Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments is composed 
of 32 [31] members.
	 SECTION 2.  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 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 Texas Alliance for the Mentally Ill;                                
		(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]; and
		(22)  the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee.                  
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           
	                                                                               


COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
	Amend H.B. No. 2384 as follows:                                                
	(1)  Strike SECTION 1 of the bill and renumber existing 
SECTIONS accordingly.
	(2)  On page 2, line 8, strike "Criminal Justice Policy 
Council" and substitute "Correctional Managed Health Care 
Committee [Criminal Justice Policy Council]".
	(3)  On page 2, line 20, strike "Texas Alliance for the 
Mentally Ill" and substitute "National [Texas] Alliance for the 
Mentally Ill of Texas".
	(4)  On page 2, line 24, strike "[and]" and substitute "and". 
	(5)  On page 2, lines 26-27, strike:                                           

; and                                                                  
		(22)  the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee                   

79R9981 MFC-D                                                          Noriega