Bill Text: TX HB4614 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to compensation for habilitation transportation services under the community living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Human Services [HB4614 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4614-Introduced.html
| 88R14340 BDP-D | ||
| By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 4614 | |
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| relating to compensation for habilitation transportation services | ||
| under the community living assistance and support services (CLASS) | ||
| waiver program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 32.079 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.079. COMMUNITY LIVING AND SUPPORT SERVICES (CLASS) | ||
| PROGRAM: HABILITATION TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. To the extent | ||
| permitted by federal law, an individual who provides habilitation | ||
| transportation services to a recipient under the community living | ||
| assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver program is entitled | ||
| to compensation for all time spent operating a motor vehicle in | ||
| connection with transporting a recipient, including time spent | ||
| returning a recipient's vehicle to a designated location without | ||
| the recipient as a passenger. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
