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The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR) was created in 1965 (House Bill 3, 59th Legislature, Regular Session), to conserve the mental health of Texas citizens and to help mentally retarded citizens to achieve their full potential. It replaced the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, which had been created in 1949 (House Bill 1, 51st Legislature, Regular Session). The governing body of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation was the nine-member Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board, appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate for overlapping six-year terms. Members represented the general public, but (beginning in 1995) were required to include at least one consumer (or family member of a consumer) of mental health/mental retardation services. The governor appointed the chair. Administration of the Department was through the Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, appointed by the board. The Commissioner appointed an assistant commissioner, a medical director, a human resources director, a managed care administration director, a state operations director, a financial services director, and directors of each of the state facilities.
The Mental Health Services Division (reorganized in 1995 and renamed the Managed Care Division) operated seven state hospitals providing general psychiatric services to patients within their geographic regions (located in Austin, Big Spring, Kerrville, Rusk, San Antonio, Terrell, and Vernon-Wichita Falls); and a Waco Center for emotionally disturbed youth.
The Mental Retardation Services Division (reorganized in 1995 and renamed the State Operations Division) operated eleven state schools (in Abilene, Austin, Brenham, Corpus Christi, Denton, Lubbock, Lufkin, Mexia, Richmond, San Angelo, and San Antonio) and between two and three state centers (in Amarillo, Beaumont, and Laredo up to 1999; in El Paso and Harlingen in 2001), which provide short-term and long-term residential care, education, training, health care, and rehabilitation services.
Community-based mental health and mental retardation services were provided by state-operated community health services, community organizations, and state centers, and also by 36 community MHMR centers under contract with the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Every Texas county has a mental health authority (MHA), and the Department was required to ensure that each provides the following community-based mental health services: crisis stabilization, emergency screening/referral, a plan of services for each individual based on multidisciplinary assessments, medication services, case management, family support programs, and psychosocial rehabilitation programs. Every Texas county also has a mental retardation authority (MRA), and the Department was required to ensure that each provides the following community-based mental retardation services: in-home support, respite care, family services, case management, and an array of vocational and employment programs. The Department's ultimate goal was to transfer all state-operated community MHMR services to local operation and control by the year 2005.
A number of changes in the 1990s affected MHMR responsibilities. In 1991, the Genetic Screening and Counseling Services program was transferred to the Department of Health, and the newly created Health and Human Services Commission was designated the single state agency for Medicaid. In 1993, inpatient single-diagnosis substance-abuse treatment was transferred from the state hospitals to the Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Also in 1993, the duty of licensing private psychiatric hospitals and of investigating complaints of abuse or neglect and clients' rights violations was transferred to other agencies, except that the Department of MHMR continued to establish standards for the private psychiatric industry. In 1995, the Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICF-MR) program was transferred to the Texas Department of Human Services. In 1997 several state hospitals were added and several state hospitals/state schools were eliminated.
House Bill 2292 (78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003) merged twelve state health and human services agencies into five, officially abolishing the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (effective September 1, 2004) and creating the new Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) and the new Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
The new Texas Department of State Health Services took over mental
health and state hospital operations formerly under the Texas Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retardation. (In addition it assumed the duties of the
Texas Department of Health, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and
the Texas Health Care Information Council.) The Mental Health and Substance
Abuse Division of DSHS is divided into two sections: the Community Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services Section, and the Hospitals Section. The
governing body is the DSHS Council, composed of nine members of the public
appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the state senate.
These nine members, representing all geographic areas of the state and
reflecting the ethnic diversity of the state,
The new Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services took over
mental retardation services and running of state schools for the mentally
retarded, formerly under the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation. (In addition, it includes community care and nursing home services
formerly run by the Texas Department of Human Services, as well as aging
services formerly run by the Texas Department on Aging.) The governing body is
the Aging and Disability Services Council, composed of nine members of the
public appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the state
senate. These nine members, representing all geographic areas of the state and
reflecting the ethnic diversity of the state,
The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation was created to conserve the mental health of Texas citizens and to help mentally retarded citizens to achieve their full potential. These records document the work of the Department's governing body, the Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board, and consist of copies of agenda (which announce the work planned for each meeting of the board and its committees), and minutes and supporting documentation (which document the work actually accomplished at those board and committee meetings), dating 1965-1984, 1986-1987, and 1989-2004.
Agenda were included routinely with minutes dating 1972-1984 and 1989-1993. The files for 1986-1987 consist of agenda only (no minutes), for three meetings. Agenda packets (which begin in January 1994) include, for the entire month, the following: meeting schedules for the board and all committees, board agenda, committee agenda, plus all briefing documents (status reports, updates, reviews and recommendations, proposed rules, etc.).
Minutes document the work of the board at each meeting. They typically
include the following: a list of attendees; a
Supporting documentation attached to the minutes include the following appendices: committee reports (giving recommendations, background and explanation, personnel implications, facilities implications, financial implications, anticipated future recommendations, etc.), budget requests, proposed rules, legislation, litigation, presentations, advisory committee position papers, professional papers, maps, charts and tables, forms, news clippings, correspondence and memoranda, biennial operating plans, etc. Committees whose reports are attached include the following: Architects, Budget, Business [and Finance, and Property Management], Care and Treatment, Executive, Geriatrics, Legislative, Medical Advisory, Program, etc.
Between March 1999 and May 2003, minutes and supporting documentation for numerous committees are listed separately from minutes and supporting documentation of board meetings. The first group of these later committees (March 1999-January 2000) included Audit and Financial Oversight, Business and Asset Management, Medicaid, and Planning and Policy Development. The second group of committees (March 2000-May 2003) include Audit, Finance, Operations, and Program and Policy.
Minutes (and almost all agenda) for January 1985-December 1988 (meetings #201 thru 245) are missing from the holdings of the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Arrangement is by State Archives staff. These records are arranged chronologically until 1999. Beginning in 1999, agenda packets and board meeting minutes are listed first (arranged chronologically), followed by committee minutes. Committee minutes are arranged alphabetically by committee in each of two groups (since all committees were reorganized and renamed in 2000), then chronologically. (Agenda packets and minutes for the same meeting are often boxed separately, but they are listed together in the inventory that follows, for the convenience of the researcher.)
(Identify the item), Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board minutes and agenda, Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Tony Black, July 1998, November 1998, August 1999, May 2000, October 2001, July 2002, August 2003, April 2006
Accession numbers: 1998/071, 1999/007, 2000/067, 2001/053, 2001/151, 2002/052, 2002/153, 2002/154. 2003/063, 2003/189, 2004/032, 2005/008, 2005/166, 2006/355
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation on February 4, 1998; September 29, 1998; December 1, 1999; October 31, 2000; August 17, 2001; October 24, 2001; July 26, 2002; October 21, 2002; July 14, 2003; and October 6, 2003; and by the Legislative Reference Library on July 26, 2002; September 13, 2004; July 28, 2005; and December 29, 2005.
The record copy of minutes and agenda were maintained by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. They are now with the Texas Department of State Health Services.