Bill Text: TX HB3312 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an evaluation of the state supported living center system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to Human Services [HB3312 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3312-Introduced.html
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| By: Collier | H.B. No. 3312 | |
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| relating to an evaluation of the state supported living center | ||
| system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. EVALUATION OF STATE SUPPORTED LIVING CENTERS. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Community services provider" means a provider of | ||
| services under a home and community-based services waiver program | ||
| and a licensed ICF-MR provider with fewer than 16 beds. | ||
| (3) "Department" means the Department of Aging and | ||
| Disability Services. | ||
| (4) "State supported living center" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The commission and the department shall contract with an | ||
| independent entity to conduct an evaluation of the state supported | ||
| living center system. | ||
| (c) In evaluating a state supported living center, the | ||
| independent entity shall consider the following factors: | ||
| (1) the proximity of the state supported living center | ||
| to other state supported living centers and the geographical | ||
| distribution of other state supported living centers; | ||
| (2) the proximity of the state supported living | ||
| centers to community services providers and the geographical | ||
| distribution of those providers; | ||
| (3) the administrative cost of the state supported | ||
| living center; | ||
| (4) the availability of other employment | ||
| opportunities in the area for employees who would be displaced if | ||
| the state supported living center were consolidated or closed, | ||
| including additional employment that may be needed by community | ||
| services providers on consolidation or closure; | ||
| (5) the condition of existing state supported living | ||
| center structures and existing community services providers; | ||
| (6) the marketability of the property where the state | ||
| supported living center is located, as determined in consultation | ||
| with persons with business development expertise, and whether the | ||
| property should be sold or converted to another use if the state | ||
| supported living center is consolidated or closed; | ||
| (7) the ease of client transfer capability; | ||
| (8) the capacity at other state supported living | ||
| centers to accommodate persons transferred from a facility if it is | ||
| consolidated or closed; | ||
| (9) the capacity of local community services providers | ||
| to accommodate persons served by the state supported living center | ||
| if it is consolidated or closed; | ||
| (10) identification of specialty programs and | ||
| services available at the state supported living center and whether | ||
| those programs and services are available at other state supported | ||
| living centers or from local community services providers; | ||
| (11) the history of incidents of abuse, neglect, or | ||
| exploitation at the state supported living center; | ||
| (12) the services and supports that are not available | ||
| in the community and that resulted in commitment of individuals to | ||
| the state supported living center during the previous five years; | ||
| (13) the support needs of residents in the state | ||
| supported living center and the availability of programs that | ||
| provide those services in the community; | ||
| (14) the impact of expanding community programs in the | ||
| area of the state supported living center, particularly in | ||
| historically underserved areas of the state; and | ||
| (15) any other relevant factor as determined by the | ||
| commission or department. | ||
| (d) Not later than October 1, 2014, the commission and the | ||
| department shall submit a report containing the findings of the | ||
| independent entity under this section to the governor, the | ||
| lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
| and the standing committee of each house of the legislature with | ||
| jurisdiction over state supported living centers. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2015. | ||
| SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2013. | ||
