Texas Health And Safety Code Title 7, Chapter 533 - Powers And Duties Of Department Of State Health Services

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 533.0001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services. (2) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services. (3) "Department facility" means...
• Texas Section 533.0002 - Commissioner's Powers And Duties; Effect Of Conflict With Other Law
  To the extent a power or duty given to the commissioner by this title or another law conflicts with Section 531.0055, Government Code, Section 531.0055...
• Texas Section 533.001 - Gifts And Grants
  (a) The department may negotiate with a federal agency to obtain grants to assist in expanding and improving mental health services in this state. (b)...
• Texas Section 533.003 - Use Of Funds For Volunteer Programs In Local Authorities And Community Centers
  (a) To develop or expand a volunteer mental health program in a local mental health authority or a community center, the department may allocate available...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 533.006 - Reporting Of Allegations Against Physician
  (a) The department shall report to the Texas Medical Board any allegation received by the department that a physician employed by or under contract with...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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 individuals with mental...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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 531.001, Government Code. (a-1) A...

SUBCHAPTER B POWERS AND DUTIES RELATING TO PROVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

• Texas Section 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 531.001, Government Code. (b) The...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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 practices for...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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,...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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....
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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,...
• Texas Section 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 with and use a broad base of...

SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES RELATING TO DEPARTMENT FACILITIES

• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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....
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...

SUBCHAPTER E JAIL DIVERSION PROGRAM

• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016