Bill Text: TX SB524 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the statewide intellectual and developmental disability coordinating council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB524 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB524-Introduced.html
88R1531 EAS-F | ||
By: West | S.B. No. 524 |
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relating to the statewide intellectual and developmental | ||
disability coordinating council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter M-2 to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER M-2. STATEWIDE INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL | ||
DISABILITY COORDINATING COUNCIL | ||
Sec. 531.491. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "council" | ||
means the statewide intellectual and developmental disability | ||
coordinating council. | ||
Sec. 531.492. PURPOSE. The council is established to | ||
ensure this state develops a strategic approach for the provision | ||
of intellectual and developmental disability services in this | ||
state. | ||
Sec. 531.493. COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL. (a) The council is | ||
composed of the following members: | ||
(1) subject to Subsection (b), one or more | ||
representatives designated by each of the following entities: | ||
(A) the Department of State Health Services; | ||
(B) the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services; | ||
(C) the Texas Workforce Commission; | ||
(D) the Texas Education Agency; | ||
(E) the Texas Center for Disability Studies at | ||
The University of Texas at Austin; | ||
(F) the Center on Disability and Development at | ||
Texas A&M University; | ||
(G) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; and | ||
(H) the Commission on Jail Standards; and | ||
(2) the following members appointed by the executive | ||
commissioner: | ||
(A) a representative of a local intellectual and | ||
developmental disability authority as defined by Section 531.002, | ||
Health and Safety Code; | ||
(B) a representative of the Governor's Committee | ||
on People with Disabilities; | ||
(C) a representative of the Texas Council for | ||
Developmental Disabilities; | ||
(D) a representative of the Arc of Texas; | ||
(E) a representative of a managed care | ||
organization; | ||
(F) a provider of Medicaid long-term services and | ||
supports; | ||
(G) a person or family member of an individual | ||
with an intellectual or developmental disability; | ||
(H) a representative of the commission's office | ||
of the ombudsman; | ||
(I) representatives of the commission, with one | ||
representative appointed from each division of the commission with | ||
responsibility for: | ||
(i) Medicaid and the Children's Health | ||
Insurance Program services; | ||
(ii) intellectual and developmental | ||
disability behavioral health services; | ||
(iii) health and specialty care system | ||
employment; | ||
(iv) health, developmental, and | ||
independence services; and | ||
(v) access and eligibility services; and | ||
(J) any additional members as the executive | ||
commissioner determines appropriate who are recognized experts | ||
serving individuals with intellectual and developmental | ||
disabilities or who represent the interests of individuals with | ||
intellectual and developmental disabilities. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner shall determine the number | ||
of representatives that each entity may designate under Subsection | ||
(a)(1) to serve on the council. | ||
(c) The council may authorize another state agency or | ||
institution that provides specific intellectual and developmental | ||
disability services with the use of money appropriated by this | ||
state to designate a representative to the council. | ||
(d) A council member serves at the pleasure of the | ||
designating entity. | ||
Sec. 531.494. PRESIDING OFFICER. The executive | ||
commissioner shall designate a member of the council to serve as the | ||
presiding officer. | ||
Sec. 531.495. MEETINGS. The council shall meet at least | ||
once quarterly or more frequently at the call of the presiding | ||
officer. | ||
Sec. 531.496. DUTIES. The council: | ||
(1) shall develop and monitor the implementation of a | ||
five-year statewide intellectual and developmental disability | ||
strategic plan; | ||
(2) shall develop a biennial coordinated statewide | ||
intellectual and developmental disability expenditure proposal; | ||
(3) shall annually publish an updated inventory of | ||
state-funded intellectual and developmental disability programs | ||
and services that includes: | ||
(A) a description of the manner in which those | ||
programs and services further the purpose of the statewide | ||
intellectual and developmental disability strategic plan; and | ||
(B) an estimate of the number of individuals | ||
waiting for or interested in receiving those programs and services; | ||
and | ||
(4) may facilitate opportunities to increase | ||
collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal | ||
and state funds for intellectual and developmental disability | ||
services in this state. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. |