Amend SB 200 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  On page 133, strike line 25 and renumber subsequent subdivisions of the subsection accordingly.

(2)  On page 136, strike line 16 and renumber subsequent subdivisions of the SECTION accordingly.

(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 2 of the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the ARTICLE accordingly:

SECTION 2.____.  (a) Section 531.251, Government Code, as amended by SB 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 531.251.  TEXAS SYSTEM OF CARE FRAMEWORK [CONSORTIUM]. (a) In this section:

(b)  The commission shall implement [form a consortium to have responsibility for and oversight over] a [state] system of care framework to develop local mental health systems of care in communities for minors who are receiving residential mental health services and supports or inpatient mental health hospitalization, have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance, or [who] are at risk of being removed from the minor's home and placed in a more restrictive environment to receive mental health services and supports, including an inpatient mental health hospital, a residential treatment facility, or a facility or program operated by the Department of Family and Protective Services or an agency that is part of the juvenile justice system.

(c) [(a-1)     The consortium must include:

[(1)     representatives of the Department of State Health Services, Department of Family and Protective Services, commission's Medicaid program, Texas Education Agency, Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments; and

[(2)     one member who is:

[(A)     a youth or young adult who has a serious emotional disturbance and has received mental health services and supports; or

[(B)     a family member of a youth or young adult described by Paragraph (A).

[(a-2)     The consortium may coordinate with the Children's Policy Council for the purposes of including the representation required by Subsection (a-1)(2).

[(b)]  The commission [and the consortium] shall:

(1)  maintain a comprehensive plan for the delivery of mental health services and supports to a minor and a minor's family using a system of care framework, including best practices in the financing, administration, governance, and delivery of those services;

(2)  enter memoranda of understanding with the Department of State Health Services, the Department of Family and Protective Services, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments that specify the roles and responsibilities of each agency in implementing the comprehensive plan described by Subdivision (1) [implement strategies to expand the use of system of care practices in the planning and delivery of services throughout the state];

(3)  identify appropriate local, state, and federal funding sources to finance infrastructure and mental health services and supports needed to support state and local system of care framework efforts; [and]

(4)  develop an evaluation system to measure cross-system performance and outcomes of state and local system of care framework efforts; and

(A)  minors who have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance or young adults who received mental health services and supports as a minor with or at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance; and

(B)  family members of those minors or young adults.

[(b-1)     Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year, the consortium shall submit a report to the legislature and the Council on Children and Families that contains an evaluation of the outcomes of the Texas System of Care and recommendations on strengthening state policies and practices that support local systems of care, including recommendations relating to:

[(1)     methods to increase access to effective and coordinated services and supports;

[(2)     methods to increase community capacity to implement local systems of care through training and technical assistance;

[(3)     use of cross-system performance and outcome data to make informed decisions at individual and system levels; and

[(4)     strategies to maximize public and private funding at the local, state, and federal levels.]

(b)  Section 531.255, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 531.255.  EVALUATION. [(a)] The commission [and the Department of State Health Services jointly] shall monitor the implementation of a system of care framework under Section 531.251 and adopt rules as necessary to facilitate or adjust that implementation [progress of the communities that implement a local system of care, including monitoring cost avoidance and the net savings that result from implementing a local system of care].