Bill Text: TX SB1060 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1060 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to family cost share provisions in the early childhood intervention program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1060 Detail]

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	By: Nelson	S.B. No. 1060

	(Zerwas)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to family cost share provisions in the early childhood
	intervention program.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 117, Human Resources Code,
	is amended by adding Sections 117.077 and 117.078 to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 117.077. DATA ANALYSIS IN FAMILY COST SHARE PROVISIONS
	IN EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION PROGRAM. (a) In this section,
	"cost-effective" means the family cost share revenue generated is
	greater than total administrative costs.
	(b) The department shall collect data, including data on
	administrative costs and adjusted family income, sufficient to
	evaluate:
	(1) the cost-effectiveness of the family cost share
	provisions of the early childhood intervention program; and
	(2) changes necessary to improve the
	cost-effectiveness of the program.
	(c) The department shall:
	(1) as necessary, modify the Texas Kids Intervention
	Data System to accept adjusted family income data submitted by
	early childhood intervention program providers; and
	(2) require all providers to enter adjusted family
	income data into the system.
	(d) The department shall use the data collected under this
	section to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of existing family cost
	share provisions in the early childhood intervention program and
	consider changes that may improve the cost-effectiveness of the
	program, including the adoption of a family cost share provision
	described by Section 117.078(a).
	(e) The department shall implement any changes considered
	under Subsection (d) that the department determines will make the
	family cost share provisions of the early childhood intervention
	program more cost-effective, if the changes will not make access to
	early childhood intervention services cost prohibitive for
	families. If none of the considered changes is determined to make
	the program more cost-effective, or if the department determines
	that the changes will make access to early childhood intervention
	services cost prohibitive for families, the department may decline
	to implement the changes.
	(f) The department shall evaluate existing family cost
	share provisions and consider and implement changes, if
	appropriate, to the early childhood intervention program as
	required by this section:
	(1) on a periodic basis established by the department;
	and
	(2) at other times at the request of the Legislative
	Budget Board.
	(g) Not later than December 1, 2014, the department shall:
	(1) conduct the initial evaluation required under
	Subsection (d) and implement any changes as required by Subsection
	(e) resulting from that evaluation; and
	(2) submit a report to the governor and the
	Legislative Budget Board summarizing the results of the initial
	evaluation and explaining any changes that were implemented.
	(h) This subsection and Subsection (g) expire September 1,
	2015.
	Sec. 117.078. FAMILY COST SHARE PROVISION IN EARLY
	CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION PROGRAM. (a) The department shall
	consider implementing a family cost share provision under which the
	amount a family pays to participate in the early childhood
	intervention program is based on the amount of service the family
	receives under the program.
	(b) A family cost share provision implemented by the
	department under Subsection (a) must establish a maximum amount to
	be paid by a family participating in the early childhood
	intervention program that is based on the family's size and
	adjusted gross income, with families in higher income brackets
	required to pay more under the provision than those families paid
	before the provision's implementation.
	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, 2013.