Amend CSSB 49 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 574.037(a), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The court, in an order that directs a patient to participate in outpatient mental health services, shall designate the person identified under Section 574.0125 as responsible for those services or may designate a different person if necessary. The person designated must be the facility administrator or an individual involved in providing court-ordered outpatient services. A person may not be designated as responsible for the ordered services without the person's consent unless the person is the facility administrator of a department facility or the facility administrator of a community center that provides mental health services[:

[(1)]  in the region in which the committing court is located[; or

[(2)     in a county where a patient has previously received mental health services].