Bill Text: TX HB3117 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to developing the proposed plan on long-term care for persons with an intellectual disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3117-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to developing the proposed plan on long-term care for persons with an intellectual disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3117-Comm_Sub.html
By: Schaefer (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 3117 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; | ||
May 6, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to developing the proposed plan on long-term care for | ||
persons with an intellectual disability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 533A.062, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) As part of the proposed plan, the commission shall | ||
review the statewide bed capacity of community ICF-IID facilities | ||
for individuals with an intellectual disability or a related | ||
condition and, based on the review, develop a process to reallocate | ||
beds held in suspension by the commission. The process may include: | ||
(1) criteria by which ICF-IID program providers may | ||
apply to the commission to receive reallocated beds; and | ||
(2) a means to reallocate the beds among health | ||
services regions. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
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