Bill Text: TX HB967 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot project to evaluate the use of radio frequency identification technology to transmit information regarding residents of certain group homes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-01 - Left pending in committee [HB967 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB967-Introduced.html
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| By: Crownover | H.B. No. 967 | |
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| relating to a pilot project to evaluate the use of radio frequency | ||
| identification technology to transmit information regarding | ||
| residents of certain group homes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 161, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 161.088 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.088. RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY | ||
| PILOT PROJECT. (a) In this section, "radio frequency | ||
| identification technology" means a wireless identification system | ||
| that uses an electromagnetic radio frequency signal to transmit | ||
| data without physical contact between a card, badge, or tag and | ||
| another device. | ||
| (b) The department shall develop and implement a one-year | ||
| pilot project in which a resident of a group home, other than a | ||
| foster home, at which a Home and Community-based Services (HCS) | ||
| provider provides services may use an identification device that | ||
| uses radio frequency identification technology or similar | ||
| technology to identify the resident, transmit information | ||
| regarding the resident, or track the location of the resident. | ||
| (c) Before a resident may use an identification device | ||
| described in Subsection (b), the department must obtain the written | ||
| consent of the resident or the resident's guardian, as appropriate. | ||
| (d) The department may not require a resident to pay for an | ||
| identification device described in Subsection (b) as a condition of | ||
| participating in the pilot project. | ||
| (e) Not later than December 1, 2017, the department shall | ||
| submit a report to the legislature evaluating the pilot project. | ||
| (f) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2016, the Department of | ||
| Aging and Disability Services shall ensure that the pilot project | ||
| required by Section 161.088, Human Resources Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, is in operation. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
