Bill Text: TX SB50 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a competitive and integrated employment initiative for certain Medicaid recipients.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB50 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB50-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 50 |
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relating to a competitive and integrated employment initiative for | ||
certain Medicaid recipients. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.02448 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.02448. COMPETITIVE AND INTEGRATED EMPLOYMENT | ||
INITIATIVE FOR CERTAIN MEDICAID RECIPIENTS. (a) This section | ||
applies to an individual receiving services under: | ||
(1) any of the following waiver programs established | ||
under Section 1915(c), Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section | ||
1396n(c)): | ||
(A) the home and community-based services (HCS) | ||
waiver program; | ||
(B) the Texas home living (TxHmL) waiver program; | ||
(C) the deaf-blind with multiple disabilities | ||
(DBMD) waiver program; and | ||
(D) the community living assistance and support | ||
services (CLASS) waiver program; and | ||
(2) the STAR+PLUS home and community-based services | ||
(HCBS) waiver program established under Section 1115, Social | ||
Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1315). | ||
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall develop a | ||
uniform process that complies with the policy adopted under Section | ||
531.02447 to: | ||
(1) assess the goals of and competitive and integrated | ||
employment opportunities and related employment services available | ||
to an individual to whom this section applies; and | ||
(2) use the identified goals and available | ||
opportunities and services to direct the individual's plan of care | ||
at the time the plan is developed or renewed. | ||
(c) The entity responsible for the development and renewal | ||
of the plan of care for an individual to whom this section applies | ||
shall use the uniform process the executive commissioner develops | ||
to assess the individual's goals, opportunities, and services | ||
described by Subsection (b) and incorporate those goals, | ||
opportunities, and services into the plan of care. | ||
(d) The executive commissioner by rule shall: | ||
(1) identify strategies to increase the number of | ||
individuals who are receiving employment services from the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission or through the waiver program in which an | ||
individual is enrolled; | ||
(2) determine a reasonable number of individuals who | ||
indicate a desire to work to receive employment services and ensure | ||
those individuals: | ||
(A) have received employment services during the | ||
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2023, or during the period | ||
beginning September 1, 2023, and ending December 31, 2023, from the | ||
Texas Workforce Commission or through the waiver program in which | ||
an individual is enrolled; or | ||
(B) are receiving employment services on | ||
December 31, 2023, from the Texas Workforce Commission or through | ||
the waiver program in which an individual is enrolled; and | ||
(3) ensure each individual who indicates a desire to | ||
work is referred to receive employment services from the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission or through the waiver program in which the | ||
individual is enrolled. | ||
(e) Not later than December 31 of each even-numbered year, | ||
the executive commissioner shall prepare and submit to the | ||
governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of | ||
representatives, and legislature a written report that outlines: | ||
(1) the number of individuals to whom this section | ||
applies who are receiving employment services in accordance with | ||
rules adopted under this section; | ||
(2) whether the employment services described by | ||
Subdivision (1) are provided by the Texas Workforce Commission, | ||
through the waiver program in which an individual is enrolled, or | ||
both; and | ||
(3) the number of individuals to whom this section | ||
applies who have obtained competitive and integrated employment, | ||
categorized by waiver program and, if applicable, an individual's | ||
level of care. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement | ||
Section 531.02448, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 531.02448(e), | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act, the executive commissioner | ||
of the Health and Human Services Commission shall submit the first | ||
report required by that section not later than December 31, 2024. | ||
SECTION 4. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money to the commission specifically for | ||
that purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money | ||
specifically for that purpose, the commission may, but is not | ||
required to, implement a provision of this Act using other | ||
appropriations that are available for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 50 passed the Senate on | ||
April 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 50 passed the House on | ||
May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 110, Nays 33, one | ||
present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |