TITLE: Relating to per capita funding by population of each local mental health authority.

SUMMARY: Relating to per capita funding by population of each local mental health authority.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to per capita funding by population of each local mental health authority. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 533.035, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: (f) The commission shall execute contracts with local mental health authorities in a manner that ensures funding of services per capita of the population served by a local mental health authority is equal to the funding of services per capita of the population served by other local mental health authorities. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to contracts between the Health and Human Services Commission and a local mental health authority executed or renewed, and audits conducted under those contracts, on or after the effective date of this Act. Contracts entered into or renewed before the effective date of this Act, and audits conducted under those contracts, are governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.