Bill Text: TX HB2379 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the functions and administration of the Health and Human Services Commission and the commission's office of inspector general in relation to fraud, waste, and abuse in health and human services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB2379 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2379-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the functions and administration of the Health and Human Services Commission and the commission's office of inspector general in relation to fraud, waste, and abuse in health and human services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB2379 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2379-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Price, Raymond, Burkett, Rose | H.B. No. 2379 |
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relating to the provision of legal services to the office of | ||
inspector general of the Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.102, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a-3) and adding Subsection (a-7) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a-3) The executive commissioner is responsible for | ||
performing all administrative support services functions necessary | ||
to operate the office in the same manner that the executive | ||
commissioner is responsible for providing administrative support | ||
services functions for the health and human services system, | ||
including functions of the office related to the following: | ||
(1) procurement processes; | ||
(2) contracting policies; | ||
(3) information technology services; | ||
(4) subject to Subsection (a-7), legal services; | ||
(5) budgeting; and | ||
(6) personnel and employment policies. | ||
(a-7) For purposes of Subsection (a-3), "legal services" | ||
includes only legal services related to open records, procurement, | ||
contracting, human resources, privacy, litigation support by the | ||
attorney general, bankruptcy, and other legal services as detailed | ||
in the memorandum of understanding or other written agreement | ||
required under Section 531.00553, as added by Chapter 837 (S.B. | ||
200), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |