Bill Text: TX HB2564 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program administered by the Texas Veterans Commission using money from the fund for veterans' assistance for entities that provide home-based health care services to veterans in certain rural counties.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs [HB2564 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2564-Introduced.html
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By: Farias | H.B. No. 2564 |
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relating to a grant program administered by the Texas Veterans | ||
Commission using money from the fund for veterans' assistance for | ||
entities that provide home-based health care services to veterans | ||
in certain rural counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 434, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 434.0172 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 434.0172. GRANTS FOR HOME HEALTH SERVICES. (a) The | ||
Texas Veterans Commission shall identify rural counties with a | ||
large population of veterans who are at least 45 years of age who | ||
may qualify for benefits from the United States Department of | ||
Veterans Affairs Home Based Primary Care program but who are unable | ||
to access home-based health care services because of the rural | ||
nature of the county in which the veterans live. | ||
(b) The Texas Veterans Commission by rule shall develop and | ||
administer a program to award grants using money from the fund for | ||
veterans' assistance to entities that offer services to assist | ||
disabled or homebound veterans to remain living in their own | ||
residences in the counties identified under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 31, 2013, the Texas | ||
Veterans Commission shall identify counties under Section | ||
434.0172(a), Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) Not later than June 1, 2014, the Texas Veterans | ||
Commission shall adopt rules and implement the grant program under | ||
Section 434.0172(b), Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |