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2025 Texas Statutes
Education Code
Title 2 - Public Education
Subtitle B - State and Regional Organization and Governance
Chapter 8 - Regional Education Service Centers
Subchapter E. Mental Health and Substance Use Resources for School District Personnel
Section 8.153. Interagency Collaboration; Memorandum of Understanding

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TX Educ Code § 8.153 (2025)
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Sec. 8.153. INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION; MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. (a) A local mental health authority that employs a non-physician mental health professional under Section 8.152 and the regional education service center shall collaborate in carrying out this subchapter.

(b) Each regional education service center shall provide for a non-physician mental health professional employed for the region served by the center with a space for the professional to carry out the professional's duties under Section 8.155. The local mental health authority that employs the professional shall pay the center a reasonable, negotiated cost-recovery fee for providing the space and administrative support as outlined in the memorandum of understanding entered into under Subsection (c). The cost-recovery fee may not exceed $15,000 per year unless the local mental health authority and center agree to a higher amount.

(c) A local mental health authority and a regional education service center shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the administration of this section.

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1019 (H.B. 19), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.

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