Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 533.004. LIENS. (a) The department and each community center has a lien to secure reimbursement for the cost of providing support, maintenance, and treatment to a patient with mental illness in an amount equal to the amount of reimbursement sought. (b) The amount of the reim…

Sec. 533.005. EASEMENTS. The department, in coordination with the executive commissioner, may grant a temporary or permanent easement or right-of-way on land held by the department that relates to services provided under this title. The department, in coordination with the execut…

Sec. 533.007. USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION. (a) Subject to the requirements of Chapter 250, the department, in relation to services provided under this title, or a local mental health authority or community center, may deny employment or volunteer status to an appli…

Sec. 533.0075. EXCHANGE OF EMPLOYMENT RECORDS. The department, in relation to services provided under this title, or a local mental health authority or community center, may exchange with one another the employment records of an employee or former employee who applies for employm…

Sec. 533.008. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. (a) Each department facility and community center shall annually assess the feasibility of converting entry level support positions into employment opportunities for individu…

Sec. 533.009. EXCHANGE OF PATIENT RECORDS. (a) Department facilities, local mental health authorities, community centers, other designated providers, and subcontractors of mental health services are component parts of one service delivery system within which patient records may b…

Sec. 533.0095. COLLECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF INFORMATION REGARDING PERSONS FOUND NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall require the department to collect information and maintain current records regarding a person found not guilty of an off…

Sec. 533.010. INFORMATION RELATING TO CONDITION. (a) A person, including a hospital, nursing facility, medical society, or other organization, may provide to the department or a medical organization, hospital, or hospital committee any information, including interviews, reports, …

Sec. 533.012. COOPERATION OF STATE AGENCIES. At the department's request and in coordination with the executive commissioner, all state departments, agencies, officers, and employees shall cooperate with the department in activities that are consistent with their functions and th…

Sec. 533.014. RESPONSIBILITY OF LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES IN MAKING TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS. (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules that: (1) relate to the responsibility of the local mental health authorities to make recommendations relating to the most appropr…

Sec. 533.015. UNANNOUNCED INSPECTIONS. The department may make any inspection of a department facility or program under the department's jurisdiction under this title without announcing the inspection. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 531, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 28, 1995. Amended by…

Sec. 533.016. CERTAIN PROCUREMENTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES BY SERVICE PROVIDERS. (a) This section does not apply to a "health and human services agency," as that term is defined by Section 521.0001, Government Code. (a-1) A state agency, local agency, or local mental health authori…

Sec. 533.017. PARTICIPATION IN PURCHASING CONTRACTS OR GROUP PURCHASING PROGRAM. (a) This section does not apply to a "health and human services agency," as that term is defined by Section 521.0001, Government Code. (b) The executive commissioner may allow a state agency, local a…

Sec. 533.031. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Elderly resident" means a person 65 years of age or older residing in a department facility. (2) "Extended care unit" means a residential unit in a department facility that contains patients with chronic mental illness who requi…

Sec. 533.032. LONG-RANGE PLANNING. (a) The department shall have a long-range plan relating to the provision of services under this title covering at least six years that includes at least the provisions required by Section 525.0156, Government Code, and Chapter 2056, Government …

Sec. 533.0325. CONTINUUM OF SERVICES IN CAMPUS FACILITIES. The executive commissioner by rule shall establish criteria regarding the uses of the department's campus-based facilities as part of a full continuum of services under this title. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1187,…

Sec. 533.033. DETERMINATION OF REQUIRED RANGE OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. (a) Consistent with the purposes and policies of this subtitle, the commissioner biennially shall determine: (1) the types of mental health services that can be most economically and effectively provided at …

Sec. 533.034. AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES. The department may cooperate, negotiate, and contract with local agencies, hospitals, private organizations and foundations, community centers, physicians, and other persons to plan, develop, and provide community-…

Sec. 533.0345. STATE AGENCY SERVICES STANDARDS. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall develop model program standards for mental health services for use by each state agency that provides or pays for mental health services. The department shall provide the model standards …

Sec. 533.035. LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES. (a) The executive commissioner shall designate a local mental health authority in one or more local service areas. The executive commissioner may delegate to the local authority the authority and responsibility of the executive commi…

Sec. 533.0351. REQUIRED COMPOSITION OF LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY GOVERNING BODY. (a) If a local mental health authority has a governing body, the governing body must include: (1) for a local authority that serves only one county, the sheriff of the county as an ex officio non…

Sec. 533.0352. LOCAL AUTHORITY PLANNING FOR LOCAL SERVICE AREA. (a) Each local mental health authority shall develop a local service area plan to maximize the authority's services by using the best and most cost-effective means of using federal, state, and local resources to meet…

Sec. 533.03521. LOCAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT PLAN CREATION AND APPROVAL. (a) A local mental health authority shall develop a local network development plan regarding the configuration and development of the local mental health authority's provider network. The plan must reflect loca…

Sec. 533.0354. DISEASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND JAIL DIVERSION MEASURES OF LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES. (a) A local mental health authority shall ensure the provision of assessment services, crisis services, and intensive and comprehensive services using disease management pr…

Sec. 533.0356. LOCAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES. (a) The department may designate a local behavioral health authority in a local service area to provide mental health and chemical dependency services in that area. The department may delegate to an authority designated under th…

Sec. 533.0357. BEST PRACTICES CLEARINGHOUSE FOR LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES. (a) In coordination with local mental health authorities, the department shall establish an online clearinghouse of information relating to best practices of local mental health authorities regarding…

Sec. 533.0358. LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY'S PROVISION OF SERVICES AS PROVIDER OF LAST RESORT. (a) A local mental health authority may serve as a provider of services under Section 533.035(e) only if, through the local network development plan process, the local authority deter…

Sec. 533.0359. RULEMAKING FOR LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES. (a) In developing rules governing local mental health authorities under Sections 533.035, 533.03521, 533.0357, and 533.0358, the executive commissioner shall use rulemaking procedures under Subchapter B, Chapter 2001,…

Sec. 533.037. SERVICE PROGRAMS AND SHELTERED WORKSHOPS. (a) The department may provide mental health services through halfway houses, sheltered workshops, community centers, and other mental health services programs. (b) The department may operate or contract for the provision of…

Sec. 533.040. SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH. (a) The department shall ensure the development of programs and the expansion of services at the community level for children with mental illness, or with a dual diagnosis of mental illness and an intellectual disability, and for the…

Sec. 533.0415. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON INTERAGENCY TRAINING. (a) The executive commissioner, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and the Texas Education Agency by rule shall adopt a joint memorandum of understanding to develop interagency training for the staffs of the …

Sec. 533.042. EVALUATION OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS. (a) The department shall evaluate each elderly resident at least annually to determine if the resident can be appropriately served in a less restrictive setting. (b) The department shall consider the proximity to the resident of fami…

Sec. 533.043. PROPOSALS FOR GERIATRIC, EXTENDED, AND TRANSITIONAL CARE. (a) The department shall solicit proposals from community providers to operate: (1) community residential programs that will provide at least the same services that an extended care unit provides for the popu…

Sec. 533.051. ALLOCATION OF OUTPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND BEDS IN STATE HOSPITALS. (a) To ensure the appropriate and timely provision of mental health services to patients who voluntarily receive those services or who are ordered by a court to receive those services in ci…

Sec. 533.0515. REGIONAL ALLOCATION OF MENTAL HEALTH BEDS. (a) In this section, "inpatient mental health facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 571.003. (b) The commission, with input from local mental health authorities, local behavioral health authorities, stakeholders, a…

Sec. 533.052. CONTRACTING WITH CERTAIN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS AND FACILITIES TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND BEDS FOR CERTAIN PERSONS. The department shall make every effort, through collaboration and contractual arrangements with local mental health authorities, to contract wit…

Sec. 533.053. INFORMING COURTS OF COMMITMENT OPTIONS. The department shall develop and implement a procedure through which a court that has the authority to commit a person who is incompetent to stand trial or who has been acquitted by reason of insanity under Chapters 46B and 46…

Sec. 533.081. DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITY BUDGETS. The department, in budgeting for a facility, shall use uniform costs for specific types of services a facility provides unless a legitimate reason exists and is documented for the use of other costs. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch…

Sec. 533.082. DETERMINATION OF SAVINGS IN FACILITIES. (a) The department shall determine the degree to which the costs of operating department facilities for persons with mental illness in compliance with applicable standards are affected as populations in the facilities fluctuat…

Sec. 533.083. CRITERIA FOR EXPANSION, CLOSURE, OR CONSOLIDATION OF FACILITY. The department shall establish objective criteria for determining when a new facility may be needed and when a facility may be expanded, closed, or consolidated. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Se…

Sec. 533.084. MANAGEMENT OF SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY. (a) To the extent provided by this subtitle, the department, in coordination with the executive commissioner, may lease, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any surplus real property related to the provision of services under this …

Sec. 533.0844. MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ACCOUNT. (a) The mental health community services account is an account in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only for the provision of mental health services by or under contract with the department. (b) The departme…

Sec. 533.085. FACILITIES FOR INMATE AND PAROLEE CARE. (a) With the written approval of the governor, the department may contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to transfer facilities to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or otherwise provide facilities for: (…

Sec. 533.087. LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) The department, in coordination with the executive commissioner, may lease real property related to the provision of services under this title, including any improvements under the department's management and control, regardless of whethe…

Sec. 533.108. PRIORITIZATION OF FUNDING FOR DIVERSION OF PERSONS FROM INCARCERATION IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) A local mental health authority may develop and may prioritize its available funding for: (1) a system to divert members of the priority population, including those member…