Bill Text: TX HB3117 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 3117 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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



	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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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	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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