H.B. No. 2384




AN ACT
relating to the composition of the Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 614.002(e), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: (e) The executive head of each of the following agencies, divisions of agencies, or associations, or that person's designated representative, shall serve as a member of the committee: (1) the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; (2) the Department of State Health Services [Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation]; (3) the pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; (4) the community justice assistance division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; (5) the state jail division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; (6) the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission; (7) the Texas Youth Commission; (8) the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services [Texas Rehabilitation Commission]; (9) the Texas Education Agency; (10) the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee [Criminal Justice Policy Council]; (11) the Mental Health Association in Texas; (12) the Board of Pardons and Paroles [Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse]; (13) the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education; (14) the Texas Council of Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Centers; (15) the Commission on Jail Standards; (16) the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities; (17) the Texas Association for Retarded Citizens; (18) the National [Texas] Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Texas; (19) the Parent Association for the Retarded of Texas, Inc.; (20) the Health and Human Services Commission [Texas Department of Human Services]; and (21) the Department of Aging and Disability Services [Texas Department on Aging]. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005. ______________________________ ______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2384 was passed by the House on April 22, 2005, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2384 was passed by the Senate on May 25, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. ______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor