By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)	H.B. No. 1329
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
	May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the payment of costs incurred by the involuntary
	commitment of persons with mental illness.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 571.018(a) and (b), Health and Safety
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The costs for a hearing or proceeding under this
	subtitle shall be paid by:
	(1)  the county in which [that initiates] emergency
	detention procedures are initiated under Subchapter A or B, Chapter
	573; or
	(2)  if no emergency detention procedures are
	initiated, the county that accepts an application for court-ordered
	mental health services, issues an order for protective custody, or
	issues an order for temporary mental health services.
	(b)  The county responsible for the costs of a hearing or
	proceeding under Subsection (a) shall pay the costs of all
	subsequent hearings or proceedings for that person under this
	subtitle until the person is discharged from mental health
	services. The county may not pay the costs from any fees collected
	under Section 51.704, Government Code. The costs shall be billed by
	the clerk of the court conducting the hearings.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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