Tex. Health & Safety Code § 534.065 · Subchapter B. COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
RENEWAL OF CERTAIN CONTRACTS FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A local mental health authority shall review a contract scheduled for renewal that:
(1) is between the authority and a private provider;
(2) is for the provision of mental health services at the community level, including residential services; and
(3) involves the use of state funds or funds for which the state has oversight responsibility.
(b) The local mental health authority may renew the contract only if the contract meets the criteria provided by Section 533.016.
(c) The local mental health authority and private provider shall negotiate a contract renewal at arm's length and in good faith.
(d) This section applies to a contract renewal regardless of the date on which the original contract was initially executed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1187, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.534.htm
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