LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

May 5, 2011

TO:	Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services
FROM:	John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1829 by Naishtat (Relating to an application for emergency detention and to the transfer to a mental hospital of a person admitted for emergency detention.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would add Subsection H-1 to Section 573.012 of the Health and Safety Code to allow a judge or magistrate to transmit a warrant electronically to an applicant, who is a physician, under certain circumstances.  No fiscal impact is anticipated as a result of this provision.

The bill would add Subsection C to Section 573.022 of the Health and Safety Code which would allow a facility to transfer patients admitted under emergency detention to an appropriate mental health hospital with written consent of the hospital administrator. The Department of State Health Services estimates there will be no fiscal impact because this puts into statute current practices.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

537 State Health Services, Department of

LBB Staff:

JOB, CL, JF, MB, NB, BM