Texas Government Code 531.0993 – Grant Program to Reduce Recidivism, Arrest, and Incarceration Among Individuals With Mental Illness and to Reduce Wait Time for Forensic Commitment
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(a) The commission shall establish a program to provide grants to county-based community collaboratives for the purposes of reducing:
(1) recidivism by, the frequency of arrests of, and incarceration of persons with mental illness; and
(2) the total waiting time for forensic commitment of persons with mental illness to a state hospital.
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Terms Used In Texas Government Code 531.0993
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(b) A community collaborative may petition the commission for a grant under the program only if the collaborative includes a county, a local mental health authority that operates in the county, and each hospital district, if any, located in the county. A community collaborative may include other local entities designated by the collaborative’s members.
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(c) The commission shall condition each grant provided to a community collaborative under this section on the collaborative providing funds from non-state sources in a total amount at least equal to:
(1) 25 percent of the grant amount if the collaborative includes a county with a population of less than 100,000;
(2) 50 percent of the grant amount if the collaborative includes a county with a population of 100,000 or more but less than 250,000;
(3) 100 percent of the grant amount if the collaborative includes a county with a population of 250,000 or more; and
(4) the percentage of the grant amount otherwise required by this subsection for the largest county included in the collaborative, if the collaborative includes more than one county.
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(c-1) To raise the required non-state sourced funds, a collaborative may seek and receive gifts, grants, or donations from any person.
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(c-2) Beginning on or after September 1, 2018, from money appropriated to the commission for each fiscal year to implement this section, the commission shall reserve at least 20 percent of that total to be awarded only as grants to a community collaborative that includes a county with a population of less than 250,000.
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(d) For each state fiscal year for which a community collaborative seeks a grant, the collaborative must submit a petition to the commission not later than the 30th day of that fiscal year. The community collaborative must include with a petition:
(1) a statement indicating the amount of funds from non-state sources the collaborative is able to provide; and
(2) a plan that:
(A) is endorsed by each of the collaborative’s member entities;
(B) identifies a target population;
(C) describes how the grant money and funds from non-state sources will be used;
(D) includes outcome measures to evaluate the success of the plan; and
(E) describes how the success of the plan in accordance with the outcome measures would further the state’s interest in the grant program’s purposes.