(a) A JBCR pilot program must:
(1) use a multidisciplinary treatment team to provide clinical treatment:
- (A) focused on the objective of restoring the individual to competency to stand trial; and
- (B) similar to the clinical treatment provided as part of a competency restoration program at an inpatient mental health facility;
- (2) employ or contract for the services of at least one psychiatrist;
- (3) use QMHP-CSs or QIDPs to provide JBCR program services; and
- (4) provide weekly competency restoration hours commensurate to the treatment hours provided as part of a competency restoration program at an inpatient mental health facility.
(b) A county-based JBCR program must:
(1) use a multidisciplinary treatment team:
- (A) focused on the objective of restoring the individual to competency to stand trial; and
- (B) similar to other competency restoration programs;
- (2) employ or contract for the services of at least one psychiatrist;
- (3) use QMHP-CSs or QIDPs to provide JBCR program services;
- (4) provide weekly competency restoration hours commensurate to the treatment hours provided as part of a competency restoration program at an inpatient mental health facility;
- (5) ensure coordination of general health care;
- (6) provide mental health treatment, ID services, and substance use disorder treatment, as necessary, for competency restoration; and
- (7) through contract, obligate a subcontractor to comply with this subchapter.
Source Note:The provisions of this §307.109 adopted to be effective August 6, 2018, 43 TexReg 5091; transferred effective February 15, 2020, as published in the Texas Register January 17, 2020, 45 TexReg 470.