Bill Text: TX HB728 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the statewide interagency aging services coordinating council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB728 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB728-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the statewide interagency aging services coordinating council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB728 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB728-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Rose (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini, et al.) | H.B. No. 728 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 12, 2023; | ||
| April 18, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
| Human Services; May 11, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 11, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the statewide interagency aging services coordinating | ||
| council. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter M-2 to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER M-2. STATEWIDE INTERAGENCY AGING SERVICES COORDINATING | ||
| COUNCIL | ||
| Sec. 531.491. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Council" means the statewide interagency aging | ||
| services coordinating council. | ||
| (2) "Strategic plan" means the statewide interagency | ||
| aging services strategic plan required under Section 531.497(1). | ||
| Sec. 531.492. PURPOSE. The council is established to | ||
| ensure a strategic statewide approach to interagency aging | ||
| services. | ||
| Sec. 531.493. COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL. (a) Subject to | ||
| Subsection (b), the council is composed of at least one | ||
| representative appointed by each of the following agencies and | ||
| entities: | ||
| (1) the governor's office; | ||
| (2) the commission, including one representative of | ||
| the commission's aging services coordination office; | ||
| (3) the Department of Family and Protective Services; | ||
| (4) the Department of State Health Services; | ||
| (5) the Department of Agriculture's office of rural | ||
| health; | ||
| (6) the Texas Veterans Commission; | ||
| (7) the Texas Workforce Commission; | ||
| (8) the office of the attorney general; | ||
| (9) the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging | ||
| Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San | ||
| Antonio; | ||
| (10) the Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium at The | ||
| University of Texas at Austin; and | ||
| (11) the Center for Community Health and Aging at | ||
| Texas A&M University. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall determine the number | ||
| of representatives that each agency or entity may appoint to serve | ||
| on the council. | ||
| (c) The council may authorize another state agency or entity | ||
| that provides specific interagency aging services with the use of | ||
| appropriated money to appoint a representative to the council. | ||
| (d) A council member serves at the pleasure of the | ||
| appointing agency or entity. | ||
| Sec. 531.494. TERMS; VACANCY. (a) Council members serve | ||
| six-year terms. | ||
| (b) A vacancy on the council shall be filled in the same | ||
| manner as the original appointment. A council member appointed to | ||
| fill a vacancy on the council shall serve the remainder of the | ||
| unexpired term. | ||
| Sec. 531.495. PRESIDING OFFICER. The representative of the | ||
| commission's aging services coordination office appointed under | ||
| Section 531.493(a) shall serve as the presiding officer. | ||
| Sec. 531.496. MEETINGS. The council shall meet at least | ||
| once quarterly or more frequently at the call of the presiding | ||
| officer. | ||
| Sec. 531.497. POWERS AND DUTIES. The council: | ||
| (1) shall, in accordance with Section 531.498: | ||
| (A) develop a recurring five-year statewide | ||
| interagency aging services strategic plan; and | ||
| (B) submit the strategic plan to the executive | ||
| commissioner and the administrative head of each agency subject to | ||
| the strategic plan; | ||
| (2) shall develop and, not later than November 1 of | ||
| each even-numbered year, submit to the legislature a biennial | ||
| coordinated statewide interagency aging services expenditure | ||
| proposal; | ||
| (3) shall annually publish an updated inventory of | ||
| state-funded interagency aging programs and services that includes | ||
| a description of how those programs and services further the | ||
| purpose of the statewide interagency aging services strategic plan; | ||
| (4) may facilitate opportunities to increase | ||
| collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal | ||
| and state money for interagency aging services in this state; and | ||
| (5) may establish subcommittees as necessary to carry | ||
| out the council's duties under this subchapter. | ||
| Sec. 531.498. RECURRING FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN AND | ||
| RELATED IMPLEMENTATION PLANS. (a) Not later than March 1 of the | ||
| last state fiscal year in each five-year period covered by the most | ||
| recent strategic plan, the council shall: | ||
| (1) develop a new strategic plan for the next five | ||
| state fiscal years that begins with the following fiscal year; and | ||
| (2) submit the new strategic plan to the executive | ||
| commissioner and the administrative head of each agency subject to | ||
| the strategic plan. | ||
| (b) Not later than the 90th day after receiving the | ||
| strategic plan, the executive commissioner and the administrative | ||
| head of each agency that is subject to the plan shall develop and | ||
| submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the | ||
| legislature a plan for implementing the recommendations applicable | ||
| to the agency under the strategic plan. An implementation plan must | ||
| include a justification for any recommendation the commission or | ||
| other agency declines to implement. | ||
| Sec. 531.499. APPLICATION OF SUNSET ACT. The council is | ||
| subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). The council shall be | ||
| reviewed during the period in which the commission is reviewed | ||
| under Section 531.004. Unless continued in existence as provided by | ||
| Chapter 325, the council is abolished and this subchapter expires | ||
| on the date on which the commission is subject to abolishment under | ||
| that section. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than January 31, 2024, the | ||
| appropriate appointing agencies or entities shall appoint the | ||
| members of the statewide interagency aging services coordinating | ||
| council as required by Section 531.493, Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than March 31, 2024, the statewide interagency | ||
| aging services coordinating council established under Subchapter | ||
| M-2, Chapter 531, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall hold | ||
| its initial meeting. | ||
| (c) Not later than March 1, 2025, the statewide interagency | ||
| aging services coordinating council shall submit the initial | ||
| five-year statewide interagency aging services strategic plan | ||
| required under Section 531.497, Government Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
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