Texas § 73.502 TRANSFER OF GIFTS, GRANTS, UNEXPENDED BALANCES, CONTRACTS, AND OBLIGATIONS.

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§ 73.502 — TRANSFER OF GIFTS, GRANTS, UNEXPENDED BALANCES, CONTRACTS, AND OBLIGATIONS.

Texas § 73.502

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Tex. Education Code Code Ann. § 73.502 (2026).

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Sec. 73.502. TRANSFER OF GIFTS, GRANTS, UNEXPENDED BALANCES, CONTRACTS, AND OBLIGATIONS. Any gifts, grants, unexpended balances of appropriated or unappropriated funds, and all movable equipment that was held by a former state agency that provided services to persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, and persons with developmental disabilities or that was transferred to the Health and Human Services Commission on dissolution of that former agency and was held for, on behalf of, or for the use and benefit of the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences are hereby transferred to The University of Texas System; provided, however, that all previously appropriated funds for statewide training of personnel and program evaluation by the institute shall be retained by

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Sec. 73.502. TRANSFER OF GIFTS, GRANTS, UNEXPENDED BALANCES, CONTRACTS, AND OBLIGATIONS. Any gifts, grants, unexpended balances of appropriated or unappropriated funds, and all movable equipment that was held by a former state agency that provided services to persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, and persons with developmental disabilities or that was transferred to the Health and Human Services Commission on dissolution of that former agency and was held for, on behalf of, or for the use and benefit of the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences are hereby transferred to The University of Texas System; provided, however, that all previously appropriated funds for statewide training of personnel and program evaluation by the institute shall be retained by the Health and Human Services Commission. All contracts and written obligations of every kind and character entered into by a former state agency that provided services to persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, and persons with developmental disabilities for and on behalf of the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences are ratified, confirmed, and validated, and in all such contracts and written obligations, the board of regents of The University of Texas System is substituted in lieu and shall stand and act in place and stead of the former state agency that provided services to persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, and persons with developmental disabilities; provided, however, that an advisory committee shall be established with regard to research protocols and the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall be a member; provided further, that The University of Texas System may contract with the Department of State Health Services for continued extramural and other laboratory consultative services. The Health and Human Services Commission, Harris County, and the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD shall provide for the continuity of inpatient and outpatient care of the patients and programs operated at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences and may contract for the provision of such services in accordance with the provisions of and appropriations provided in the General Appropriations Act.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 848, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985. Amended by: Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1279 (H.B. 965 ), Sec. 14, eff. September 1, 2019.