Acceptable uses of the grant money and matching funds include:
- (1) continuing a mental health jail diversion program;
- (2) establishing or expanding a mental health jail diversion program;
- (3) establishing alternatives to competency restoration in a state hospital, including outpatient competency restoration, inpatient competency restoration in a setting other than a state hospital, or jail-based competency restoration;
- (4) providing assertive community treatment or forensic assertive community treatment with an outreach component;
- (5) providing intensive mental health services and substance use treatment not readily available in the county;
- (6) providing continuity of care services for an individual being released from a state hospital;
- (7) establishing interdisciplinary rapid response teams to reduce law enforcement's involvement with mental health emergencies; and
- (8) providing local community hospital, crisis, respite, or residential beds.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.