SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter
531, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 531.0993 to read as
follows:
Sec. 531.0993. GRANT
PROGRAM TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM, ARREST, AND INCARCERATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS
WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND TO REDUCE WAIT TIME FOR FORENSIC COMMITMENT. (a)
For purposes of this section, "low-income household" means a
household with a total income at or below 200 percent of the federal
poverty guideline.
(b) Using money appropriated to the commission for
that purpose, each state fiscal year the commission shall make grants to county-based community
collaboratives for the purposes of reducing:
(1) recidivism by, the
frequency of arrests of, and incarceration of persons with mental illness;
and
(2) the total waiting
time for forensic commitment of persons with mental illness to a state
hospital.
(c) A community
collaborative is eligible to receive
a grant under this section only
if the collaborative includes a county, a local mental health authority
that operates in the county, and each hospital district, if any, located in
the county. A community collaborative may include other local entities
designated by the collaborative's members.
(d) The commission shall
condition each grant provided to a community collaborative under this
section on the collaborative submitting
a plan described by Subsection (i) and providing matching funds from nonstate sources in
a total amount at least equal to the
grant amount.
To raise matching funds, a collaborative may
seek and receive gifts, grants, or donations from any person.
(e) Not later than the 30th day of each fiscal year, the
commission shall make available to a community collaborative established in
the most populous county in this state a grant in an amount equal to the
lesser of:
(1) the amount previously appropriated to the Department of
State Health Services each fiscal year to implement a mental health jail
diversion pilot program in that county; or
(2) the collaborative's available matching funds.
(f) The commission shall estimate the number of persons with
serious mental illness in low-income households located in each of the 20
most populous counties in this state. For the purposes of distributing
grants under this section to community collaboratives established in the 19
counties other than the most populous county, for each fiscal year the
commission shall determine an amount of grant money available on a per person
basis by dividing the amount of the grant made available under Subsection
(e) by the estimated total number of persons with serious mental illness in
low-income households located in the most populous county.
(g) Not later than the 60th day of each fiscal year, the
commission shall make available to a community collaborative established in
each of the 19 most populous counties in this state other than the most
populous county a grant in an amount equal to the lesser of:
(1) an amount determined by multiplying the per person amount
determined under Subsection (f) by the estimated number of cases of serious
mental illness in low-income households in that county; or
(2) an amount equal to the collaborative's available matching
funds.
(h) To the extent appropriated money remains available to the
commission for that purpose after the commission makes grants available
under Subsections (e) and (g), the commission shall make available to
community collaboratives established in other counties in this state grants
through a competitive request for proposal process. For purposes of
awarding a grant under this subsection, a collaborative may include
adjacent counties if, for each member county, the collaborative's members
include a local mental health authority that operates in the county and
each hospital district, if any, located in the county. The commission
shall condition a grant under this subsection on the collaborative
submitting a plan described by Subsection (i).
(i) Not later than the 30th day of each fiscal year, the
community collaboratives established in each of the 20 most populous
counties in this state shall submit to the commission
a plan that:
(1) is endorsed by each
of the collaborative's member entities;
(2) identifies a target
population;
(3) describes how the
grant money and matching funds
will be used;
(4) includes outcome
measures to evaluate the success of the plan; and
(5) describes how the
success of the plan in accordance with the outcome measures would further
the state's interest in the grant program's purposes.
(j) Acceptable uses for
the grant money and matching funds include:
(1) the continuation of a
mental health jail diversion program;
(2) the establishment or
expansion of a mental health jail diversion program;
(3) the establishment of
alternatives to competency restoration in a state hospital, including
outpatient competency restoration, inpatient competency restoration in a
setting other than a state hospital, or jail-based competency restoration;
(4) the provision of
assertive community treatment or forensic assertive community treatment
with an outreach component;
(5) the provision of
intensive mental health services and substance abuse treatment not readily
available in the county;
(6) the provision of
continuity of care services for an individual being released from a state
hospital;
(7) the establishment of
interdisciplinary rapid response teams to reduce law enforcement's
involvement with mental health emergencies; and
(8) the provision of
local community hospital, crisis, respite, or residential beds.
(k) Not later than December 31 following the end of the fiscal
year for which the commission distributes a grant under this section, each
community collaborative that receives a grant shall prepare and submit a
report describing the effect of the grant money and matching funds in
achieving the standard defined by the outcome measures in the plan
submitted under Subsection (h) or (i).
(l) The commission may
make inspections of the operation and provision of mental health services
provided by a community collaborative to ensure state money appropriated
for the grant program is used effectively.
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B,
Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 531.0993 to read
as follows:
Sec. 531.0993. GRANT
PROGRAM TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM, ARREST, AND INCARCERATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS
WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND TO REDUCE WAIT TIME FOR FORENSIC COMMITMENT. (a)
For purposes of this section, "low-income household" means a
household with a total income at or below 200 percent of the federal
poverty guideline.
(b) The commission shall establish a program to provide grants
to county-based community collaboratives for the purposes of reducing:
(1) recidivism by, the
frequency of arrests of, and incarceration of persons with mental illness;
and
(2) the total waiting
time for forensic commitment of persons with mental illness to a state
hospital.
(c) A community
collaborative may petition the
commission for a grant under the
program only if the collaborative includes a county, a local mental
health authority that operates in the county, and each hospital district,
if any, located in the county. A community collaborative may include other
local entities designated by the collaborative's members.
(d) The commission shall
condition each grant provided to a community collaborative under this
section on the collaborative providing funds from non-state sources in a
total amount at least equal to:
(1) 50 percent of the grant amount if the collaborative
includes a county with a population of less than 250,000;
(2) 100 percent of the grant amount if the collaborative includes
a county with a population of 250,000 or more; and
(3) the percentage of the grant amount otherwise required by
this subsection for the largest county included in the collaborative, if
the collaborative includes more than one county.
(d-1) To raise the required non-state sourced funds, a
collaborative may seek and receive gifts, grants, or donations from any
person.
(d-2) From money appropriated to the commission for each fiscal
year to implement this section, the commission shall reserve 40 percent of
that total to be awarded only as grants to a community collaborative that
includes a county with a population of less than 250,000.
(e) For each state fiscal year for which a community collaborative
seeks a grant, the collaborative must submit a petition to the commission
not later than the 30th day of that fiscal year. The community
collaborative must include with a petition:
(1) a statement indicating the amount of funds from non-state sources
the collaborative is able to provide; and
(2) a plan that:
(A) is endorsed by each
of the collaborative's member entities;
(B) identifies a target
population;
(C) describes how the
grant money and funds from non-state
sources will be used;
(D) includes outcome
measures to evaluate the success of the plan; and
(E) describes how the
success of the plan in accordance with the outcome measures would further
the state's interest in the grant program's purposes.
(f) The commission must review plans submitted with a petition
under Subsection (e) before the commission provides a grant under this
section. The commission must fulfill the commission's requirements under
this subsection not later than the 60th day of each fiscal year.
(g) For each petition timely submitted and containing the
statement and plan required by Subsection (e), the commission shall
estimate the number of cases of serious mental illness in low-income
households located in the county included in the community collaborative that
submitted the petition. The commission must fulfill the commission's
requirements under this subsection not later than the 60th day of each
fiscal year.
(h) For each state fiscal year, the commission shall determine
an amount of grant money available for the program on a per-case basis by
dividing the total amount of money appropriated to the commission for the
purpose of providing grants under this section for that fiscal year by the
total number of the cases estimated under Subsection (g) for all collaboratives
to which the commission intends to provide grants under this section. The
commission must fulfill the commission's requirements under this subsection
not later than the 60th day of each fiscal year.
(i) Not later than the 90th day of each fiscal year, the
commission shall make available to a community collaborative receiving a
grant under this section a grant in an amount equal to the lesser of:
(1) the amount determined by multiplying the per-case amount
determined under Subsection (h) by the number of cases of serious mental
illness in low-income households estimated for that collaborative under
Subsection (g); or
(2) the collaborative's available matching funds.
(j) Acceptable uses for
the grant money and matching funds include:
(1) the continuation of a
mental health jail diversion program;
(2) the establishment or
expansion of a mental health jail diversion program;
(3) the establishment of
alternatives to competency restoration in a state hospital, including
outpatient competency restoration, inpatient competency restoration in a
setting other than a state hospital, or jail-based competency restoration;
(4) the provision of
assertive community treatment or forensic assertive community treatment
with an outreach component;
(5) the provision of
intensive mental health services and substance abuse treatment not readily
available in the county;
(6) the provision of
continuity of care services for an individual being released from a state
hospital;
(7) the establishment of
interdisciplinary rapid response teams to reduce law enforcement's
involvement with mental health emergencies; and
(8) the provision of
local community hospital, crisis, respite, or residential beds.
(j-1) To the extent money appropriated to the commission to
implement this section for a fiscal year remains available to the
commission after the commission selects grant recipients for the fiscal
year, the commission shall make grants available using the money remaining
for the fiscal year through a competitive request for proposal process,
without regard to the limitation provided by Subsection (d-2).
(k) Not later than the 90th day after the last day of the state
fiscal year for which the commission distributes a grant under this
section, each community collaborative that receives a grant shall prepare
and submit a report describing the effect of the grant money and matching
funds in achieving the standard defined by the outcome measures in the plan
submitted under Subsection (e).
(l) The commission may
make inspections of the operation and provision of mental health services
provided by a community collaborative to ensure state money appropriated
for the grant program is used effectively.
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