Bill Text: TX SB2417 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the effects of providing child life specialist services to certain individuals who receive supportive palliative care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2417 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2417-Introduced.html
88R2534 KKR-D | ||
By: Johnson | S.B. No. 2417 |
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relating to a study on the effects of providing child life | ||
specialist services to certain individuals who receive supportive | ||
palliative care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: | ||
(1) "Advisory council" means the Palliative Care | ||
Interdisciplinary Advisory Council established under Chapter 118, | ||
Health and Safety Code. | ||
(2) "Child life specialist" means a health care | ||
provider that offers psychosocial support to pediatric patients and | ||
to the children of seriously ill adult patients by helping improve a | ||
child's coping skills, aiding in the development of holistic pain | ||
management and other symptom management strategies for pediatric | ||
patients, and improving the overall patient experience. | ||
(3) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission. | ||
SECTION 2. STUDY REGARDING CHILD LIFE SPECIALIST SERVICES. | ||
(a) The commission, in collaboration with the advisory council, | ||
shall conduct a study to assess the effects of supporting the use of | ||
child life specialist services by or providing child life | ||
specialist services to adult and child Medicaid recipients in this | ||
state who receive supportive palliative care in inpatient or | ||
community-based settings, including: | ||
(1) potential improvements to recipients' health care | ||
outcomes and quality of life; and | ||
(2) anticipated cost savings to this state. | ||
(b) The study must identify: | ||
(1) the role child life specialists currently play in | ||
providing supportive palliative care services to individuals, | ||
including Medicaid recipients, in inpatient and community-based | ||
settings in this state; | ||
(2) the current funding method for child life | ||
specialist positions; | ||
(3) opportunities for increasing the use of child life | ||
specialist services in this state; and | ||
(4) best practices for using child life specialist | ||
services as developed by other states. | ||
(c) The advisory council shall provide recommendations to | ||
the commission regarding the structure and goals of the study, | ||
including recommendations for: | ||
(1) specific populations to receive supportive | ||
palliative care under Medicaid; | ||
(2) variables and outcomes to measure in the study; | ||
and | ||
(3) entities, including hospitals, hospices, and home | ||
health agencies, with which the commission may collaborate to | ||
conduct the study. | ||
(d) The commission may: | ||
(1) collaborate with private and public entities as | ||
necessary to conduct the study; and | ||
(2) solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations | ||
from any public or private source to fund the study. | ||
SECTION 3. REPORT TO ADVISORY COUNCIL AND LEGISLATURE. (a) | ||
Not later than September 1, 2026, the commission shall prepare and | ||
submit to the advisory council a report on the results of the study | ||
conducted under this Act. | ||
(b) The advisory council shall include the commission's | ||
report under Subsection (a) of this section in the advisory | ||
council's 2026 biennial report to the legislature required by | ||
Section 118.010, Health and Safety Code. | ||
SECTION 4. EXPIRATION. This Act expires December 31, 2026. | ||
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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. |