Bill Text: TX HB4629 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the terms and qualifications of members on the Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-05 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB4629 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4629-Engrossed.html
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| By: Klick | H.B. No. 4629 | |
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| relating to the terms and qualifications of members on the | ||
| Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory | ||
| Committee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 534.053, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) To the greatest extent possible, the executive | ||
| commissioner shall appoint members of the advisory committee who: | ||
| (1) reflect the geographic diversity of the state and | ||
| include members who represent rural Medicaid recipients; and | ||
| (2) will ensure the continuity in and effective | ||
| fulfillment of the advisory committee's advisory responsibility. | ||
| (b-1) A member of the advisory committee serves a four-year | ||
| term and may be reappointed. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| Section 534.053, Government Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 534.053(b-1), Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies to a member of the Intellectual and | ||
| Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee, | ||
| regardless of when the member was appointed. For purposes of that | ||
| section, the term of a member appointed to the advisory committee | ||
| before the effective date of this Act begins on the effective date | ||
| of this Act or the date designated by the executive commissioner of | ||
| the Health and Human Services Commission as the executive | ||
| commissioner determines necessary to effectuate staggered terms. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
