Bill Text: TX HB135 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a work group to study uniform quality measures under a value-based program for long-term services and supports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-08 - Filed [HB135 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB135-Introduced.html
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| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 135 | |
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| relating to the creation of a work group to study uniform quality | ||
| measures under a value-based program for long-term services and | ||
| supports. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.01211 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.01211. WORK GROUP ON UNIFORM QUALITY MEASURES | ||
| UNDER VALUE-BASED PROGRAM FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. (a) | ||
| The commission shall establish within the advisory committee | ||
| established under Section 531.012 that studies value-based payment | ||
| and quality improvement initiatives a work group to study, develop, | ||
| and recommend uniform quality measures to be implemented under a | ||
| value-based program for long-term services and supports. The work | ||
| group shall: | ||
| (1) develop an underlying methodology for measuring | ||
| quality under the value-based program; | ||
| (2) identify the data sources that should be used in | ||
| the methodology; and | ||
| (3) develop a process for reporting, collecting, and | ||
| validating the data used in the methodology. | ||
| (b) The work group shall engage stakeholders representing | ||
| clients who receive long-term services and supports and providers | ||
| and relevant industries that provide community-based long-term | ||
| services and supports to assist in developing uniform quality | ||
| measures under Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) To the extent permitted by federal law, data collected | ||
| and the uniform quality measures developed by the work group under | ||
| this section must be accessible to the public. | ||
| (d) Not later than January 10, 2023, the commission, in | ||
| consultation with the work group established under this section and | ||
| with the agreement of the advisory committee in which the work group | ||
| is established, shall submit a report on the findings and | ||
| recommendations of the work group to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
| governor, and the standing committees of the senate and house of | ||
| representatives having primary jurisdiction over Medicaid. The | ||
| report must include: | ||
| (1) the uniform quality measures developed and | ||
| recommended by the work group under Subsection (a), including any | ||
| methodology recommended by the work group for measuring quality; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) the commission's recommendations for implementing | ||
| those quality measures, including a proposed timeline for | ||
| implementation of the measures and a description of any potential | ||
| legislation that would be required for implementation of the | ||
| measures. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
