Text of section effective on April 01, 2025
Sec. 547.0357.  USE OF GRANT MONEY AND MATCHING FUNDS.  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.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.