Tex. Gov't Code § 547.0357 · Subchapter H. MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES TO REDUCE INVOLVEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
USE OF GRANT MONEY AND MATCHING FUNDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Acceptable uses of the grant money and matching funds include:
(1) continuing a mental health jail diversion program;
(2) establishing or expanding a mental health jail diversion program;
(3) establishing 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) providing assertive community treatment or forensic assertive community treatment with an outreach component;
(5) providing intensive mental health services and substance use treatment not readily available in the county;
(6) providing continuity of care services for an individual being released from a state hospital;
(7) establishing interdisciplinary rapid response teams to reduce law enforcement's involvement with mental health emergencies; and
(8) providing local community hospital, crisis, respite, or residential beds.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.
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