Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 534.003. BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR CENTER ESTABLISHED BY AT LEAST TWO LOCAL AGENCIES. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), the board of trustees of a community center established by an organizational combination of local agencies is composed of not fewer than five or more…

Sec. 534.004. PROCEDURES RELATING TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERSHIP. (a) The local agency or organizational combination of local agencies that establishes a community center shall prescribe: (1) the application procedure for a position on the board of trustees; (2) the procedure an…

Sec. 534.005. TERMS; VACANCIES. (a) Appointed members of the board of trustees who are not members of a local agency's governing body serve staggered two-year terms. In appointing the initial members, the appointing authority shall designate not less than one-third or more than o…

Sec. 534.006. TRAINING. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish: (1) an annual training program for members of a board of trustees administered by the professional staff of that community center, including the center's legal counsel; and (2) an advisory committee t…

Sec. 534.0065. QUALIFICATIONS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; REMOVAL. (a) As a local public official, a member of the board of trustees of a community center shall uphold the member's position of public trust by meeting and maintaining the applicable qualifications for membership and by …

Sec. 534.007. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES BY FORMER OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES; OFFENSE. (a) A former officer or employee of a community center who ceases service or employment with the center may not represent any person or receive compensation for services rendered on behalf of any person…

Sec. 534.008. ADMINISTRATION BY BOARD. (a) The board of trustees is responsible for the effective administration of the community center. (b) The board of trustees shall make policies that are consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department. Adde…

Sec. 534.009. MEETINGS. (a) The board of trustees shall adopt rules for the holding of regular and special meetings. (b) Board meetings are open to the public to the extent required by and in accordance with Chapter 551, Government Code. (c) The board of trustees shall keep a rec…

Sec. 534.010. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. (a) The board of trustees shall appoint an executive director for the community center. (b) The board of trustees shall: (1) adopt a written policy governing the powers that may be delegated to the executive director; and (2) annually report to e…

Sec. 534.011. PERSONNEL. (a) The executive director, in accordance with the policies of the board of trustees, shall employ and train personnel to administer the community center's programs and services. The community center may recruit those personnel and contract for recruiting…

Sec. 534.0115. NEPOTISM. (a) The board of trustees or executive director may not hire as a paid officer or employee of the community center a person who is related to a member of the board of trustees by affinity within the second degree or by consanguinity within the third degre…

Sec. 534.012. ADVISORY COMMITTEES. (a) The board of trustees may appoint committees, including medical committees, to advise the board of trustees on matters relating to mental health and intellectual disability services. (b) Each committee must be composed of at least three memb…

Sec. 534.013. COOPERATION OF DEPARTMENTS. Each appropriate department shall provide assistance, advice, and consultation to local agencies, boards of trustees, and executive directors in the planning, development, and operation of a community center. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg.…

Sec. 534.014. BUDGET; REQUEST FOR FUNDS. (a) Each community center shall annually provide to each local agency that appoints members to the board of trustees a copy of the center's: (1) approved fiscal year operating budget; (2) most recent annual financial audit; and (3) staff s…

Sec. 534.015. PROVISION OF SERVICES. (a) The board of trustees may adopt rules to regulate the administration of mental health or intellectual disability services by a community center. The rules must be consistent with the purposes, policies, principles, and standards prescribed…

Sec. 534.0155. FOR WHOM SERVICES MAY BE PROVIDED. (a) This subtitle does not prevent a community center from providing services to: (1) a person with a chemical dependency; (2) a person with a developmental disability; or (3) a person younger than four years of age who is eligibl…

Sec. 534.016. SCREENING AND CONTINUING CARE SERVICES. (a) A community center shall provide screening services for: (1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and (2) a person for whom proceeding…

Sec. 534.017. FEES FOR SERVICES. (a) A community center shall charge reasonable fees for services the center provides, unless prohibited by other service contracts or law. (b) The community center may not deny services to a person because of inability to pay for the services. (c)…

Sec. 534.0175. TRUST EXEMPTION. (a) If a patient or client is the beneficiary of a trust that has an aggregate principal of $250,000 or less, the corpus or income of the trust is not considered to be the property of the patient or client or the patient's or client's estate and is…

Sec. 534.018. GIFTS AND GRANTS. A community center may accept gifts and grants of money, personal property, and real property to use in providing the center's programs and services. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg.…

Sec. 534.019. CONTRIBUTION BY LOCAL AGENCY. A participating local agency may contribute land, buildings, facilities, other real and personal property, personnel, and funds to administer the community center's programs and services. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, e…

Sec. 534.020. ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND FACILITIES BY COMMUNITY CENTER. (a) A community center may purchase or lease-purchase real and personal property and may construct buildings and facilities. (b) The board of trustees shall require that an appraiser certif…

Sec. 534.021. APPROVAL AND NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. (a) A community center must receive from each appropriate department prior written approval to acquire real property, including a building, if the acquisition involves the use of funds of that department or local funds require…

Sec. 534.022. FINANCING OF PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS. (a) To acquire or to refinance the acquisition of real and personal property, to construct improvements to property, or to finance all or part of a payment owed or to be owed on a credit agreement, a community center may contr…

Sec. 534.023. SALE OF REAL PROPERTY ACQUIRED SOLELY THROUGH PRIVATE GIFT OR GRANT. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a community center may sell center real property, including a building, without the approval of each appropriate department or any local agency that appoin…

Sec. 534.031. SURPLUS PERSONAL PROPERTY. The executive commissioner, in coordination with the appropriate department, may transfer, with or without reimbursement, ownership and possession of surplus personal property under that department's control or jurisdiction to a community …

Sec. 534.032. RESEARCH. A community center may engage in research and may contract for that purpose. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.

Sec. 534.033. LIMITATION ON DEPARTMENT CONTROL AND REVIEW. (a) It is the intent of the legislature that each department limit its control over, and routine reviews of, community center programs to those programs that: (1) use funds from that department or use required local funds…

Sec. 534.035. REVIEW, AUDIT, AND APPEAL PROCEDURES. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish review, audit, and appeal procedures for community centers. The procedures must ensure that reviews and audits are conducted in sufficient quantity and type to provide reaso…

Sec. 534.036. FINANCIAL AUDIT. (a) The executive commissioner shall prescribe procedures for financial audits of community centers. The executive commissioner shall develop the procedures with the assistance of the state agencies and departments that contract with community cente…

Sec. 534.037. PROGRAM AUDIT. (a) The executive commissioner shall coordinate with each state agency or department that contracts with a community center to prescribe procedures based on risk assessment for coordinated program audits of the activities of a community center. The pr…

Sec. 534.038. APPOINTMENT OF MANAGER OR MANAGEMENT TEAM. (a) Each appropriate commissioner may appoint a manager or management team to manage and operate a community center if the commissioner finds that the center or an officer or employee of the center: (1) intentionally, reckl…

Sec. 534.039. POWERS AND DUTIES OF MANAGEMENT TEAM. (a) As each appropriate commissioner determines for each appointment, a manager or management team appointed under Section 534.038 may: (1) evaluate, redesign, modify, administer, supervise, or monitor a procedure, operation, or…

Sec. 534.040. RESTORING MANAGEMENT TO CENTER. (a) Each month, each appropriate commissioner shall evaluate the performance of a community center managed by a manager or team appointed under Section 534.038 to determine the feasibility of restoring the center's management and oper…

Sec. 534.051. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services. (2) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services. Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.

Sec. 534.052. RULES AND STANDARDS. (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules, including standards, the executive commissioner considers necessary and appropriate to ensure the adequate provision of community-based mental health services through a local mental health author…

Sec. 534.053. REQUIRED COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. (a) The department shall ensure that, at a minimum, the following services are available in each service area: (1) 24-hour emergency screening and rapid crisis stabilization services; (2) community-based crisis reside…

Sec. 534.0535. JOINT DISCHARGE PLANNING. (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt or amend, and the department shall enforce, rules that require continuity of services and planning for patient care between department facilities and local mental health authorities. (b) At a mini…

Sec. 534.054. DESIGNATION OF PROVIDER. (a) The department shall identify and contract with a local mental health authority for each service area to ensure that services are provided to patient populations determined by the department. A local mental health authority shall ensure …

Sec. 534.055. CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES. (a) The executive commissioner shall design a competitive procurement or similar system that a mental health authority shall use in awarding an initial contract for the provision of services at the community level for person…

Sec. 534.056. COORDINATION OF ACTIVITIES. A local mental health authority shall coordinate its activities with the activities of other appropriate agencies that provide care and treatment for persons with drug or alcohol problems. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, ef…

Sec. 534.058. STANDARDS OF CARE. (a) The executive commissioner shall develop standards of care for the services provided by a local mental health authority and its subcontractors under this subchapter. (b) The standards must be designed to ensure that the quality of the communit…

Sec. 534.059. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (a) The department shall evaluate a local mental health authority's compliance with its contract to ensure the provision of specific services to priority populations. (b) If, by a date set by the commissioner, a local menta…

Sec. 534.060. PROGRAM AND SERVICE MONITORING AND REVIEW OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (a) The department shall develop mechanisms for monitoring the services provided by a local mental health authority. (b) The department shall review the program quality and program performance results o…

Sec. 534.0601. COORDINATED PROGRAM AUDITS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (a) The executive commissioner shall coordinate with each agency or department of the state that contracts with a local mental health authority to prescribe procedures for a coordinated program audit of the authority…

Sec. 534.0602. FINANCIAL AUDITS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (a) The executive commissioner shall prescribe procedures for a financial audit of a local mental health authority. The procedures must be consistent with requirements for the receipt of federal funding by the authority. (b) T…