Senate Finance chair confirms behavioral health budget

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will have some $6.7 billion to fund the state’s behavioral health services efforts during the 2016-2017 fiscal biennium.

 

Senate Finance Committee Chair Jane Nelson, at a March 30 meeting of the committee, confirmed the $6.7 billion, using figures provided by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the 10-member Legislative Budget Board. In the 2014-2015 state budget the amount for behavioral health funding was an estimated $6.2 billion.

 

One of the legislative interim charges assigned to the committee by the lieutenant governor is to monitor the state’s progress in coordinating behavioral health services and expenditures across state government.

 

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