Policy Update Tag: Community-Based Care

June 18, 2025

89th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap-Up

SUMMARY – The 89th Texas Legislature marked a decade of bipartisan commitment to mental health at the Texas Capitol, leveraging both budget and legislative...

June 30, 2023

88th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap-Up

SUMMARY – The 88th Legislature delivered a record $11.68 billion for behavioral health, an increase of more than 30% from the previous session. Senator...

March 27, 2023

Texas House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety – HB 2638

SUMMARY – On March 27, Deputy Director of The Hackett Center Marcy Melvin provided invited testimony before the House Select Committee on Youth Health...

March 22, 2023

Senate Health & Human Services Committee – SB 26

SUMMARY - On March 22, Meadows Institute President & CEO Andy Keller, PhD, provided invited testimony before the Senate Health & Human Services Committee...

July 7, 2021

87th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap-Up

SUMMARY - Throughout what was a challenging and, at times, divisive legislative session, one area of full agreement among state leaders was that mental...

October 1, 2020

Texas House Committee on Human Services – Interim Charge 2.1

SUMMARY – During the 86th Legislative Interim, in October 2020, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute provided the Texas House Committee on Human Services with...