Bill Text: TX HB1486 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to peer specialists, peer services, and the provision of those services under the medical assistance program.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - See remarks for effective date [HB1486 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1486-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1486 |
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relating to peer specialists, peer services, and the provision of | ||
those services under the medical assistance program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0999 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0999. PEER SPECIALISTS. (a) With input from | ||
mental health and substance use peer specialists and the work group | ||
described by Subsection (b), the commission shall develop and the | ||
executive commissioner shall adopt: | ||
(1) rules that establish training requirements for | ||
peer specialists so that they are able to provide services to | ||
persons with mental illness or services to persons with substance | ||
use conditions; | ||
(2) rules that establish certification and | ||
supervision requirements for peer specialists; | ||
(3) rules that define the scope of services that peer | ||
specialists may provide; | ||
(4) rules that distinguish peer services from other | ||
services that a person must hold a license to provide; and | ||
(5) any other rules necessary to protect the health | ||
and safety of persons receiving peer services. | ||
(b) The commission shall establish a stakeholder work group | ||
to provide input for the adoption of rules under Subsection (a). | ||
The work group is composed of the following stakeholders appointed | ||
by the executive commissioner: | ||
(1) one representative of each organization that | ||
certifies mental health and substance use peer specialists in this | ||
state; | ||
(2) three representatives of organizations that | ||
employ mental health and substance use peer specialists; | ||
(3) one mental health peer specialist who works in an | ||
urban area; | ||
(4) one mental health peer specialist who works in a | ||
rural area; | ||
(5) one substance use peer specialist who works in an | ||
urban area; | ||
(6) one substance use peer specialist who works in a | ||
rural area; | ||
(7) one person who trains mental health peer | ||
specialists; | ||
(8) one person who trains substance use peer | ||
specialists; | ||
(9) three representatives of mental health and | ||
addiction licensed health care professional groups who supervise | ||
mental health and substance use peer specialists; | ||
(10) to the extent possible, not more than three | ||
persons with personal experience recovering from mental illness, | ||
substance use conditions, or co-occurring mental illness and | ||
substance use conditions; and | ||
(11) any other persons considered appropriate by the | ||
executive commissioner. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall appoint one member of | ||
the work group to serve as presiding officer. | ||
(d) The work group shall meet once every month. | ||
(e) The work group is automatically abolished on the | ||
adoption of rules under Subsection (a). | ||
(f) The executive commissioner may not adopt rules under | ||
Subsection (a) that preclude the provision of mental health | ||
rehabilitative services under 25 T.A.C. Chapter 416, Subchapter A, | ||
as that subchapter existed on January 1, 2017. | ||
(g) If the executive commissioner has not adopted rules by | ||
September 1, 2018, the executive commissioner shall submit on that | ||
date a written report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the | ||
speaker of the house of representatives, the chair of the Senate | ||
Health and Human Services Committee, and the chair of the House | ||
Public Health Committee explaining why the rules have not yet been | ||
adopted. This subsection expires September 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (kk) to read as follows: | ||
(kk) The commission in its rules and standards governing the | ||
scope of services provided under the medical assistance program | ||
shall include peer services provided by certified peer specialists | ||
to the extent permitted by federal law. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall: | ||
(1) adopt the rules required by Section 531.0999(a), | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act; and | ||
(2) appoint the members of the stakeholder work group | ||
established by Section 531.0999(b), Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 5. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
section, 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, 2017. | ||
(b) This Act takes effect only if the 85th Legislature | ||
appropriates money specifically for the purpose of implementing | ||
this Act. If the legislature does not appropriate money | ||
specifically for that purpose, this Act does not take effect. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1486 was passed by the House on April | ||
20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1486 on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1486 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |