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HB109 • 2025

Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Rose | Thompson | Jones, Jolanda | Plesa | Leo Wilson
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

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Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  4. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

  6. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  7. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

  8. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3112

  9. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Text of Senate Amendment(s)

  11. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  12. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  13. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  14. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  15. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  17. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  18. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  19. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  20. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  21. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  22. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  23. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  24. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  25. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  26. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  27. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  28. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  29. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  30. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Health & Human Services

  31. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  32. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  33. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#748

  34. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  35. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  36. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  37. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  38. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  39. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  40. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#654

  41. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  42. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  43. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  44. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Transferred to Calendars Committee

  45. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  46. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  47. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Withdrawn from calendar (contested)

  48. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.

  49. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  50. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  51. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  52. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  53. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  55. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  56. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  57. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  58. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  59. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  60. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  61. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  62. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

  63. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  64. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Human Services

Official Summary Text

Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 109 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 109

AN ACT

relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain

inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of

residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 551.007, Health and Safety Code, is

amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(c)

If the legislature appropriates money to the commission

for the purpose of the construction, expansion, or operation of

certain inpatient mental health facilities under authority

conferred by Sections 2155.144(b-2) and 2166.251, Government Code,

the commission may award the money as a one-time grant directly to

an entity for that purpose.

SECTION 2. Section 554.001(a), Health and Safety Code, is

amended to read as follows:

(a) The department shall
designate state facilities for
use

[
the Waco Center for Youth
] as [
a
] residential treatment
facilities

[
facility
] for emotionally disturbed juveniles who:

(1) have been admitted under Subtitle C to a facility

of the department; or

(2) are under the managing conservatorship of the

Department of Family and Protective Services and have been admitted

under Subtitle C to
a state facility designated by the department

under this section
[
the Waco Center for Youth
].

SECTION 3. Section 554.002, Health and Safety Code, is

amended to read as follows:

Sec. 554.002. SERVICES. (a) The department shall provide

without charge appropriate education services for all clients

residing at
state facilities designated by the department under

Section 554.001
[
the Waco Center for Youth
].

(b) The department shall pay for
the
[
those
] services

described by Subsection (a)
from funds appropriated [
to the center
]

for that purpose.

(c) A client of
a state facility designated by the

department under Section 554.001
[
the center
] who is not a resident

of the
school district that serves the geographical area in which

the facility is located
[
Waco Independent School District
] may

receive education services from the
district
[
Waco Independent

School District
] only with the prior approval of the superintendent

of the district.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 109 was passed by the House on April

29, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 1 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.

No. 109 on May 20, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 1, 1

present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 109 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 14, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays

0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

__________________

Governor