81R7566 UM-D
 
  By: Hilderbran H.B. No. 1678
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the Hill Country local mental health authority crisis
  stabilization unit.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 551.009, Health and
  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 551.009.  HILL COUNTRY LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY
  CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT [PILOT PROJECT]. 
         SECTION 2.  Sections 551.009(a), (c), and (e), Health and
  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The Department of State Health Services shall operate 
  [implement a crisis stabilization unit pilot project by
  establishing and operating] a crisis stabilization unit on the
  grounds of the Kerrville State Hospital as provided by this
  section.  The unit must be a 16-bed facility separate from the
  buildings used by the Kerrville State Hospital.
         (c)  The local mental health authority shall contract with
  Kerrville State Hospital to provide food service, laundry service,
  and lawn care[, and equipment rental to the crisis stabilization
  unit.   The local mental health authority may contract with
  Kerrville State Hospital to provide pharmaceutical services for the
  crisis stabilization unit].
         (e)  The local mental health authority operating the crisis
  stabilization unit under contract shall use, for the purpose of
  operating the 16-bed unit, the money appropriated to the department
  for operating 16 beds in state hospitals that is allocated to the
  local mental health authority.  The department shall ensure that
  the local mental health authority retains the remainder of the
  local authority's state hospital allocation that is not used for
  operating the 16-bed unit.  The department may allocate additional
  funds appropriated to the department for state hospitals to the
  crisis stabilization unit [pilot project].
         SECTION 3.  Sections 551.009(g) and (h), Health and Safety
  Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect August 31, 2009.