Texas Health And Safety Code Title 7, Chapter 534 - Community Services
SUBCHAPTER A COMMUNITY CENTERS
- Texas Section 534.0001 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Commissioner" means: (A) the commissioner of state health services in relation to: (i) a community mental health center; or (ii) the...
- Texas Section 534.001 - Establishment
(a) A county, municipality, hospital district, or school district, or an organizational combination of two or more of those local agencies, may establish and operate...
- Texas Section 534.0015 - Purpose And Policy
(a) A community center created under this subchapter is intended to be a vital component in a continuum of services for persons in this state...
- Texas Section 534.002 - Board Of Trustees For Center Established By One Local Agency
The board of trustees of a community center established by one local agency is composed of: (1) the members of the local agency's governing body;...
- Texas Section 534.003 - Board Of Trustees For Center Established By At Least Two Local Agencies
(a) The board of trustees of a community center established by an organizational combination of local agencies is composed of not fewer than five or...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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)...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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....
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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....
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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,...
SUBCHAPTER B COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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,...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 534.0535 - Joint Discharge Planning
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt, and the department shall enforce, rules that require continuity of services and planning for patient care between department facilities...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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....
- Texas Section 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)...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 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...
- Texas Section 534.0603 - Additional Financial Audit Activity
(a) The executive commissioner shall develop protocols for an agency or department of the state to conduct additional financial audit activities of a local mental...
- Texas Section 534.061 - Program And Service Monitoring And Review Of Certain Community Services
(a) The local mental health authority shall monitor the services of a provider who contracts with the authority to provide services for persons with mental...
- Texas Section 534.063 - Peer Review Organization
The department shall assist a local mental health authority in developing a peer review organization to provide self-assessment of programs and to supplement department reviews...
- Texas Section 534.064 - Contract Renewal
The executive commissioner may refuse to renew a contract with a local mental health authority and may select other agencies, entities, or organizations to be...
- Texas Section 534.065 - Renewal Of Certain Contracts For Community Services
(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...
- Texas Section 534.066 - Local Match Requirement
(a) The department shall include in a contract with a local mental health authority a requirement that some or all of the state funds the...
- Texas Section 534.067 - Fee Collection Policy
The executive commissioner shall establish a uniform fee collection policy for all local mental health authorities that is equitable, provides for collections, and maximizes contributions...
- Texas Section 534.0675 - Notice Of Denial, Reduction, Or Termination Of Services
The executive commissioner by rule, in cooperation with local mental health authorities, consumers, consumer advocates, and service providers, shall establish a uniform procedure that each...
- Texas Section 534.068 - Audits
(a) As a condition to receiving funds under this subtitle, a local mental health authority other than a state facility designated as an authority must...
- Texas Section 534.069 - Criteria For Providing Funds For Start-up Costs
(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall develop criteria to regulate the provision of payment to a private provider for start-up costs associated with the...
- Texas Section 534.070 - Use Of Prospective Payment Funds
(a) Each local mental health authority that receives prospective payment funds shall submit to the department a quarterly report that clearly identifies how the provider...
SUBCHAPTER B-1 COMMUNITY-BASED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES
- Texas Section 534.071 - Advisory Committee
A local mental health authority may appoint a committee to advise its governing board on a matter relating to the oversight and provision of mental...
- Texas Section 534.101 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of aging and disability services. (2) "Department" means the Department of Aging and Disability Services. (3) "Department...
- Texas Section 534.102 - 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 intellectual disability...
- Texas Section 534.103 - Required Community-based Intellectual Disability Services
(a) The department shall ensure that, at a minimum, the following services are available in each service area: (1) community-based assessments, including diagnosis and evaluation...
- Texas Section 534.104 - Joint Discharge Planning
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt, and the department shall enforce, rules that require continuity of services and planning for client care between department facilities...
- Texas Section 534.105 - Designation Of Provider
(a) The department shall identify and contract with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority for each service area to ensure that services are provided...
- Texas Section 534.106 - Contracts For Certain Community Services
(a) The executive commissioner shall design a competitive procurement or similar system that an intellectual and developmental disability authority shall use in awarding an initial...
- Texas Section 534.107 - Coordination Of Activities
A local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall coordinate its activities with the activities of other appropriate agencies that provide care and treatment for persons...
- Texas Section 534.1075 - Respite Care
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules relating to the provision of respite care and shall develop a system to reimburse providers of in-home respite...
- Texas Section 534.108 - Standards Of Care
(a) The executive commissioner shall develop standards of care for the services provided by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority and its subcontractors under...
- Texas Section 534.109 - Contract Compliance For Local Authorities
(a) The department shall evaluate a local intellectual and developmental disability authority's compliance with its contract to ensure the provision of specific services to priority...
- Texas Section 534.110 - Program And Service Monitoring And Review Of Local Authorities
(a) The department shall develop mechanisms for monitoring the services provided by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority. (b) The department shall review the...
- Texas Section 534.111 - 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 intellectual and developmental disability authority to...
- Texas Section 534.112 - Financial Audits Of Local Authorities
(a) The executive commissioner shall prescribe procedures for a financial audit of a local intellectual and developmental disability authority. The procedures must be consistent with...
- Texas Section 534.113 - Additional Financial Audit Activity
(a) The executive commissioner shall develop protocols for an agency or department of the state to conduct additional financial audit activities of a local intellectual...
- Texas Section 534.114 - Program And Service Monitoring And Review Of Certain Community Services
(a) The local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall monitor the services of a provider who contracts with the authority to provide services to persons...
- Texas Section 534.115 - Peer Review Organization
The department shall assist a local intellectual and developmental disability authority in developing a peer review organization to provide self-assessment of programs and to supplement...
- Texas Section 534.116 - Contract Renewal
The executive commissioner may refuse to renew a contract with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority and may select other agencies, entities, or organizations...
- Texas Section 534.117 - Renewal Of Certain Contracts For Community Services
(a) A local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall review a contract scheduled for renewal that: (1) is between the authority and a private provider;...
- Texas Section 534.118 - Local Match Requirement
(a) The department shall include in a contract with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority a requirement that some or all of the state...
- Texas Section 534.119 - Fee Collection Policy
The executive commissioner shall establish a uniform fee collection policy for all local intellectual and developmental disability authorities that is equitable, provides for collections, and...
- Texas Section 534.120 - Notice Of Denial, Reduction, Or Termination Of Services
The executive commissioner by rule, in cooperation with local intellectual and developmental disability authorities, consumers, consumer advocates, and service providers, shall establish a uniform procedure...
- Texas Section 534.121 - Audits
(a) As a condition to receiving funds under this subtitle, a local intellectual and developmental disability authority other than a state facility designated as an...
- Texas Section 534.122 - Criteria For Providing Funds For Start-up Costs
(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall develop criteria to regulate the provision of payment to a private provider for start-up costs associated with the...
- Texas Section 534.123 - Use Of Prospective Payment Funds
(a) Each local intellectual and developmental disability authority that receives prospective payment funds shall submit to the department a quarterly report that clearly identifies how...
SUBCHAPTER C HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
- Texas Section 534.124 - Advisory Committee
A local intellectual and developmental disability authority may appoint a committee to advise its governing board on a matter relating to the oversight and provision...
- Texas Section 534.151 - Health Maintenance Organization Certificate Of Authority
(a) One or more community centers may create or operate a nonprofit corporation pursuant to the laws of this state for the purpose of accepting...
- Texas Section 534.152 - Laws And Rules
A nonprofit corporation created or operated under this subchapter that obtains and holds a valid certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization may exercise...
- Texas Section 534.153 - Application Of Laws And Rules
A health maintenance organization created and operating under this subchapter is governed as, and is subject to the same laws and rules of the Texas...
- Texas Section 534.154 - Applicability Of Specific Laws
(a) A nonprofit health maintenance organization created under Section 534.151 is a health care provider that is a nonprofit health maintenance organization created and operated...
- Texas Section 534.155 - Consideration Of Bids
Each appropriate department shall give equal consideration to bids submitted by any entity, whether it be public, for-profit, or nonprofit, if the department accepts bids...
- Texas Section 534.156 - Conditions For Certain Contracts
A contract between each appropriate department and a health maintenance organization formed by one or more community centers must provide that the health maintenance organization...
Last modified: September 28, 2016