By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 294

(Menendez)

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. Subsections (f) and (j), Section 1, 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 of each even-numbered year[, 2012], 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, 2023 [2013].

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 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, shall be harmonized, if possible, as provided by Subsection (b), Section 311.025, 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 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, 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 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the legislative session.