Bill Text: TX HB3104 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to home-delivered meal services under the Options for Independent Living program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-19 - Referred to Human Services [HB3104 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3104-Introduced.html
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| By: Campos | H.B. No. 3104 | |
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| relating to home-delivered meal services under the Options for | ||
| Independent Living program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 101A.151, Human Resources Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows: | ||
| (2-a) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 101A, Human Resources | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 101A.1541 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 101A.1541. HOME-DELIVERED MEAL SERVICES: EVALUATION | ||
| AND MONITORING. (a) On a quarterly basis the commission shall | ||
| evaluate the use of home-delivered meal services under the Options | ||
| for Independent Living program by collecting data from all local | ||
| area agencies on aging to determine: | ||
| (1) the number of: | ||
| (A) home-delivered meals requested under the | ||
| program; | ||
| (B) requests for home-delivered meals that are | ||
| approved and denied under the program; and | ||
| (C) home-delivered meals that are delivered to | ||
| individuals under the program; and | ||
| (2) statewide trends related to the provision of | ||
| home-delivered meals under the program and the reasons for those | ||
| trends. | ||
| (b) The commission shall continually monitor the use of | ||
| home-delivered meal services under the Options for Independent | ||
| Living program, including statewide trends related to the use of | ||
| those services, and make any necessary actions to improve the | ||
| provision of those services. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) submit a report containing the results of the | ||
| evaluations performed under Subsection (a) and recommendations for | ||
| improving the use of home-delivered meals under the Options for | ||
| Independent Living program to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
| governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the | ||
| standing committees of the legislature having primary jurisdiction | ||
| over health and human services; and | ||
| (2) post the report on the commission's Internet | ||
| website. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2021, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall submit the report required by | ||
| Section 101A.1541(c), Human Resources Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
