Bill Text: TX SB50 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the Children's Policy Council, including the composition of the council.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB50 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB50-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the Children's Policy Council, including the composition of the council.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB50 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB50-Introduced.html
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By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 50 |
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relating to the Children's Policy Council, including the | ||
composition of the council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 22.035(a), (b), (e), (f), (g), (i), | ||
(j), (k), and (l), Human Resources Code, are amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) A work group to be known as the Children's Policy | ||
Council shall assist the Department of Aging and Disability | ||
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of State Health Services, the [ |
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Rehabilitative Services [ |
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and the Department of Family and Protective [ |
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Services in developing, implementing, and administering family | ||
support policies for children with disabilities relating to: | ||
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(2) health services; and | ||
(3) mental [ |
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(b) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
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members of the work group, which must include the following: | ||
(1) a person who is younger than 22 years of age and is | ||
a consumer of long-term care and health programs for children; | ||
(2) an individual who is younger than 25 years of age | ||
and who receives or has received mental health services; | ||
(3) relatives of consumers of long-term care and | ||
health programs for children; | ||
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is an advocate for consumers of long-term care and health programs | ||
for children; | ||
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(5) a person from a private entity that provides | ||
long-term care and health programs for children; | ||
(6) a person from a public entity that provides | ||
long-term care and health programs for children; | ||
(7) a person with expertise in the availability of | ||
funding and the application of funding formulas for children's | ||
long-term care and health services; | ||
(8) a representative from a faith-based organization; | ||
(9) a representative from a nonspecialized community | ||
services organization; and | ||
(10) a representative from a business that is not | ||
related to providing services to persons with disabilities. | ||
(e) The Health and Human Services Commission [ |
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administrative support, including staff, to the work group. | ||
(f) A member of the work group serves at the will of the | ||
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission | ||
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(g) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
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member of the work group to serve as a presiding officer. | ||
(i) A member of the work group receives no additional | ||
compensation for serving on the work group. Consumers and | ||
relatives of consumers serving on the work group shall be | ||
reimbursed for travel and other expenses necessary for | ||
participation as provided in the General Appropriations Act. Other | ||
members of the work group may not be reimbursed for travel or other | ||
expenses incurred while conducting the business of the work group. | ||
Reimbursement under this subsection shall be paid equally out of | ||
funds appropriated to the Department of Aging and Disability | ||
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Department of State Health Services. | ||
(j) The work group may [ |
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recommendations in the following areas: | ||
(1) access of a child or a child's family to effective | ||
case management services, including case management services with a | ||
single case manager, parent case managers, or independent case | ||
managers; | ||
(2) the transition needs of children who reach an age | ||
at which they are no longer eligible for services at the [ |
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Department of State Health Services, the Texas Education Agency, | ||
and other applicable state agencies; | ||
(3) the blending of funds, including case management | ||
funding, for children needing long-term care, [ |
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services, and mental health services; | ||
(4) collaboration and coordination of children's | ||
services between the Department of Aging and Disability Services | ||
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Department of Family and Protective Services [ |
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applicable by the work group; | ||
(5) budgeting and the use of funds appropriated for | ||
children's long-term care services, [ |
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services, and mental health services; | ||
(6) services and supports for families providing care | ||
for children with disabilities; | ||
(7) effective permanency planning for children who | ||
reside in institutions or who are at risk of placement in an | ||
institution; | ||
(8) barriers to enforcement of regulations regarding | ||
institutions that serve children with disabilities; and | ||
(9) the provision of services under the medical | ||
assistance program to children younger than 23 years of age with | ||
disabilities or special health care needs under a waiver granted | ||
under Section 1915(c) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. | ||
Section 1396n(c)). | ||
(k) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
the work group shall report on its findings and recommendations to | ||
the legislature and the executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission [ |
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(l) After evaluating and considering recommendations | ||
reported under Subsection (k), the executive commissioner of the | ||
Health and Human Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement | ||
guidelines for providing long-term care, [ |
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mental health services to children with disabilities. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 531.159(f), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(f) The commission by rule shall develop procedures by which | ||
to conduct the reviews required by Subsections (c), (d), and (e). | ||
In developing the procedures, the commission may [ |
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from the work group on children's long-term services, [ |
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health services, and mental health services [ |
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under Section 22.035, Human Resources Code. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as possible after the effective date of | ||
this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall appoint three additional members to the | ||
Children's Policy Council. In appointing members, the executive | ||
commissioner shall consider appointing members with expertise in | ||
mental health services. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |