BIENNIAL REPORT.

Text of section as amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1066 (H.B. 6), Sec. 20

Sec. 113.0251. BIENNIAL REPORT.

Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the consortium shall prepare and submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the standing committee of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over behavioral health issues and post on its Internet website a written report that outlines:

(1) the activities and objectives of the consortium;

(2) the health-related institutions of higher education listed in Section 113.0052(1) that receive funding by the executive committee;

(3) during the preceding two years, the percentage of participants in the Texas Child Health Access through Telemedicine program operated by the consortium:

(A) who were prescribed a psychotropic drug by the consortium;

(B) who were referred to a health provider for further mental health services;

(C) who completed program treatment goals; and

(D) who were provided information on consortium research programs on the participant's discharge from the program;

(4) during the preceding two years, the percentage of potential participants:

(A) for whom a parent or legal guardian declined to give informed consent to participate in the program; and

(B) who were referred to but not enrolled in the program because the potential participant needed more emergent care; and

(5) any legislative recommendations based on the activities and objectives described by Subdivision (1).

Text of section as amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 707 (H.B. 18), Sec. 13

Sec. 113.0251. BIENNIAL REPORT.

Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the consortium shall prepare and submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the standing committee of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over behavioral health issues, and the Legislative Budget Board and post on its Internet website a written report that outlines:

(1) the activities and objectives of the consortium;

(2) the health-related institutions of higher education listed in Section 113.0052(1) that receive funding by the executive committee;

(3) the rural hospitals and rural health clinics to which the program established under Section 113.0181 provided mental health access services;

(4) the cost to maintain the mental health care access program established under Subchapter D-1; and

(5) any legislative recommendations based on the activities and objectives described by Subdivision (1).