Bill Text: TX HB1784 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 1784 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to requiring an interagency memorandum of understanding regarding the Public Assistance Reporting Information System and to the use of data from that system.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1784 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1784-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 1784




	AN ACT
	relating to requiring an interagency memorandum of understanding
	regarding the Public Assistance Reporting Information System and to
	the use of data from that system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 531.0998 to read as follows:
	Sec. 531.0998. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING
	PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REPORTING INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAXIMIZATION OF
	BENEFITS. (a) In this section, "system" means the Public
	Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS) operated by the
	Administration for Children and Families of the United States
	Department of Health and Human Services.
	(b) The commission, the Texas Veterans Commission, the
	Veterans' Land Board, and the Department of Aging and Disability
	Services shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the
	purposes of:
	(1) coordinating and collecting information about the
	use and analysis among state agencies of data received from the
	system; and
	(2) developing new strategies for state agencies to
	use system data in ways that:
	(A) generate fiscal savings for the state; and
	(B) maximize the availability of and access to
	benefits for veterans.
	(c) The commission, the Texas Veterans Commission, and the
	Department of Aging and Disability Services shall coordinate to
	assist veterans in maximizing the benefits available to each
	veteran by using the system.
	(d) The commission and the Texas Veterans Commission
	together may determine the geographic scope of the efforts
	described by Subsection (c).
	(e) Not later than October 1, 2012, the commission, the
	Texas Veterans Commission, the Veterans' Land Board, and the
	Department of Aging and Disability Services collectively shall
	submit to the governor and the Legislative Budget Board a report
	describing:
	(1) the frequency and success with which state
	agencies have used the system;
	(2) the costs to the state that were avoided as a
	result of state agencies' use of the system; and
	(3) recommendations for future use of the system by
	state agencies.
	(f) Subsection (e) and this subsection expire September 1,
	2013.
	SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2011, the Health and
	Human Services Commission, the Texas Veterans Commission, the
	Veterans' Land Board, and the Department of Aging and Disability
	Services shall enter into a memorandum of understanding as required
	by Section 531.0998, Government Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1784 was passed by the House on May
	11, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 1, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1784 was passed by the Senate on May
	25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0
	.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor