Bill Text: TX SB1021 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to reports on the consolidation and certain functions of the health and human services system, including advisory committees within the system, and the re-creation of the Texas system of care framework.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [SB1021 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1021-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to reports on the consolidation and certain functions of the health and human services system, including advisory committees within the system, and the re-creation of the Texas system of care framework.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [SB1021 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1021-Comm_Sub.html
By: Nelson | S.B. No. 1021 | |
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relating to reports on the consolidation and certain functions of | ||
the health and human services system, including advisory committees | ||
within the system, and the re-creation of the Texas system of care | ||
framework. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.0051(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) The council is composed of: | ||
(1) the executive commissioner; | ||
(2) the director of each division established by the | ||
executive commissioner under Section 531.008(c); | ||
(3) the commissioner of a health and human services | ||
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(4) the commissioner of the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services, regardless of whether that agency continues as | ||
a state agency separate from the commission; and | ||
(5) other individuals appointed by the executive | ||
commissioner as the executive commissioner determines necessary. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 531.02031(a) and (b), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Not later than July 31 [ |
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executive commissioner shall conduct a study and submit a report | ||
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Services Transition Legislative Oversight Committee that include: | ||
(1) a recommendation regarding the need to continue | ||
the Department of Family and Protective Services as a state agency | ||
separate from the commission, unless a determination on the | ||
continuation is made before that date; | ||
(2) a recommendation regarding the need to continue | ||
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(3) an assessment of the quality and consistency of | ||
data sharing, communication, and coordination between the | ||
Department of Family and Protective Services and the commission; | ||
and | ||
(4) an assessment of any known or potential conflicts | ||
of interest concerning licensing and regulation activities by the | ||
Department of Family and Protective Services or the commission, | ||
including the process by which known conflicts of interest are | ||
mitigated or managed by those agencies. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1, 2018, the Health and Human | ||
Services Transition Legislative Oversight Committee shall review | ||
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Subsection (a) and submit a report and recommendations | ||
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(1) a recommendation regarding the need to continue | ||
the Department of Family and Protective Services as a state agency | ||
separate from the commission, unless a determination on the | ||
continuation is made before that date; | ||
(2) a recommendation regarding the need to continue | ||
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(3) an assessment of and any necessary recommendations | ||
concerning data sharing, communication, and coordination between | ||
the Department of Family and Protective Services and the | ||
commission. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 531.251, Government Code, is reenacted | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.251. TEXAS SYSTEM OF CARE FRAMEWORK. (a) In this | ||
section: | ||
(1) "Minor" means an individual younger than 18 years | ||
of age. | ||
(2) "Serious emotional disturbance" means a mental, | ||
behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to result | ||
in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or | ||
limits a person's role or ability to function in family, school, or | ||
community activities. | ||
(3) "System of care framework" means a framework for | ||
collaboration among state agencies, minors who have a serious | ||
emotional disturbance or are at risk of developing a serious | ||
emotional disturbance, and the families of those minors that | ||
improves access to services and delivers effective community-based | ||
services that are family-driven, youth- or young adult-guided, and | ||
culturally and linguistically competent. | ||
(b) The commission shall implement a system of care | ||
framework to develop local mental health systems of care in | ||
communities for minors who are receiving residential mental health | ||
services and supports or inpatient mental health hospitalization, | ||
have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance, | ||
or are at risk of being removed from the minor's home and placed in a | ||
more restrictive environment to receive mental health services and | ||
supports, including an inpatient mental health hospital, a | ||
residential treatment facility, or a facility or program operated | ||
by the Department of Family and Protective Services or an agency | ||
that is part of the juvenile justice system. | ||
(c) The commission shall: | ||
(1) maintain a comprehensive plan for the delivery of | ||
mental health services and supports to a minor and a minor's family | ||
using a system of care framework, including best practices in the | ||
financing, administration, governance, and delivery of those | ||
services; | ||
(2) enter memoranda of understanding with the | ||
Department of State Health Services, the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Juvenile | ||
Justice Department, and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders | ||
with Medical or Mental Impairments that specify the roles and | ||
responsibilities of each agency in implementing the comprehensive | ||
plan described by Subdivision (1); | ||
(3) identify appropriate local, state, and federal | ||
funding sources to finance infrastructure and mental health | ||
services and supports needed to support state and local system of | ||
care framework efforts; | ||
(4) develop an evaluation system to measure | ||
cross-system performance and outcomes of state and local system of | ||
care framework efforts; and | ||
(5) in implementing the provisions of this section, | ||
consult with stakeholders, including: | ||
(A) minors who have or are at risk of developing a | ||
serious emotional disturbance or young adults who received mental | ||
health services and supports as a minor with or at risk of | ||
developing a serious emotional disturbance; and | ||
(B) family members of those minors or young | ||
adults. | ||
SECTION 4. Not later than July 31, 2018, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
submit to the Health and Human Services Transition Legislative | ||
Oversight Committee the report required by Section 531.02031(a), | ||
Government Code, as amended by this Act. The report must also | ||
include: | ||
(1) the latest information available on the | ||
commission's progress in transferring and consolidating the | ||
administrative support services functions of the health and human | ||
services system as mandated by Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531, | ||
Government Code; and | ||
(2) recommendations on: | ||
(A) whether to abolish each statutory advisory | ||
committee that considers issues related to the health and human | ||
services system; and | ||
(B) for an advisory committee for which | ||
abolishment is recommended, whether to reestablish the advisory | ||
committee by rule, consolidate the advisory committee with another | ||
advisory committee, or permanently discontinue the advisory | ||
committee in any form. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2017. |