82R733 EES-D

By: Menendez H.B. No. 35

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to extending a local behavioral health intervention pilot

project.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 1(f) and (j), Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232),

Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, are amended to

read as follows:

(f) Not later than December 1, 2012 [2010], the local mental

health authority involved in the pilot project shall submit a

report to the department regarding the local behavioral health

intervention pilot project, including:

(1) a comprehensive analysis of the efficacy of the

project; and

(2) the local authority's findings and

recommendations.

(j) This Act expires September 1, 2013 [2011].

SECTION 2. (a) It is the intent of the legislature that

amendments to Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232), Acts of the 81st

Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by this Act and any other

amendments to that chapter made by another Act of the 82nd

Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, shall be harmonized, if

possible, as provided by Section 311.025(b), Government Code, so

that effect may be given to each amendment.

(b) If an amendment to Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232), Acts of the

81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by this Act and an

amendment to that chapter made by another Act of the 82nd

Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, are irreconcilable, it is the

intent of the legislature that the amendment to Chapter 356 (H.B.

1232), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by

this Act prevail, regardless of the relative effective dates or

dates of enactment of the irreconcilable amendments.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.