SB1775 - Relating to processes to ensure continuity of care and services for certain offenders.

  89R2377 EAS-D     By: Miles S.B. No. 1775       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to processes to ensure continuity of care and services for   certain offenders.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Chapter 614, Health and Safety Code, is amended   by adding Section 614.0175 to read as follows:           Sec.   614.0175.     CONTINUITY OF CARE AND SERVICES FOR CERTAIN   OFFENDERS. (a) In this section:                 (1)     "Local behavioral health authority" means an   authority designated by the Health and Human Services Commission   under Section 533.0356.                 (2)     "Local mental health authority" has the meaning   assigned by Section 531.002.           (b)     A local mental health authority or local behavioral   health authority that receives notice that an individual to whom   the authority provided services has been processed by a local jail   may not refuse to provide services or discontinue services to the   individual on that basis alone.           (c)     The Commission on Jail Standards shall require each   local jail regulated by the commission to notify a local mental   health authority or local behavioral health authority described by   Subsection (b) before the jail releases an individual to whom the   authority provided services to ensure the individual receives   continuity of care and services.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.