Bill Text: TX HB3669 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to services provided to and collection of data regarding individuals with acquired brain injury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3669 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3669-Introduced.html
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By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3669 |
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relating to services provided to and collection of data regarding | ||
individuals with acquired brain injury. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0982 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0982. SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN | ||
INJURY. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Council" means the Texas Brain Injury Advisory | ||
Council established under 1 T.A.C. Section 351.825. | ||
(2) "Office" means the office of acquired brain injury | ||
within the commission. | ||
(b) The commission, in collaboration with the council and | ||
the office, shall periodically review and evaluate: | ||
(1) acquired brain injury programs in other states to | ||
develop best practices for this state; and | ||
(2) services provided to individuals who have | ||
experienced a concussion, particularly services provided to | ||
students in public education systems, for consistency and efficacy. | ||
(c) The commission, in collaboration with the council, the | ||
office, and the Department of Public Safety, shall develop an | ||
identification card for individuals with acquired brain injury to | ||
help those individuals when interacting with law enforcement and | ||
emergency medical services personnel. The commission shall | ||
collaborate with the Department of Public Safety to ensure that law | ||
enforcement and emergency medical services personnel throughout | ||
the state recognize the identification card and understand the | ||
impact an acquired brain injury may have on an individual's | ||
behavior. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 92.002(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Spinal cord injuries, acquired brain injuries, | ||
including traumatic and non-traumatic brain injuries, and | ||
submersion injuries are reportable to the department. The | ||
executive commissioner by rule shall define those terms for | ||
reporting purposes. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 92.003, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) The executive commissioner by rule shall develop | ||
reporting requirements to ensure acquired brain injury data is | ||
reported in each case in which an acquired brain injury has | ||
occurred, without regard to whether acquired brain injury is the | ||
primary diagnosis. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (oo) to read as follows: | ||
(oo) The commission shall provide medical assistance for | ||
cognitive rehabilitation therapy for a recipient of medical | ||
assistance who suffers an acquired brain injury, regardless of when | ||
the injury occurred. | ||
SECTION 5. Subchapter C, Chapter 352, Labor Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 352.109 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 352.109. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES FOR | ||
INDIVIDUALS WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY. (a) In this section, | ||
"council" and "office" have the meanings assigned by Section | ||
531.0982, Government Code. | ||
(b) The commission, in collaboration with the council and | ||
the office, shall implement a program to provide vocational | ||
rehabilitation services to individuals with acquired brain injury | ||
across all levels of functioning, including by providing ongoing | ||
support as needed to maintain the individual's employment. | ||
SECTION 6. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission. | ||
(2) "Council" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
531.0982, Government Code. | ||
(3) "Office" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
531.0982, Government Code. | ||
(b) The commission, in collaboration with the office and the | ||
council, shall develop a comprehensive plan to improve long-term | ||
outcomes, reduce disabilities, and decrease long-term health care | ||
costs for individuals with acquired brain injury. | ||
(c) The comprehensive plan must: | ||
(1) regarding long-term residential services and | ||
community services including day habilitation, supported living, | ||
and supported work: | ||
(A) assess services currently available; and | ||
(B) identify gaps in and barriers to accessing | ||
those services; | ||
(2) identify actions necessary to ensure that health | ||
care providers have the knowledge and skills to meet the needs of | ||
individuals with acquired brain injury; | ||
(3) develop tools, protocols, and reporting | ||
procedures for use by hospitals, emergency systems, school | ||
districts, state agencies, and others to identify individuals with | ||
acquired brain injury; and | ||
(4) develop a uniform screening and assessment tool to | ||
identify the services and supports needed by an individual with an | ||
acquired brain injury. | ||
(d) Not later than November 30, 2020, the commission shall | ||
prepare and submit to the legislature a report describing the | ||
comprehensive plan required by this section. | ||
SECTION 7. 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 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |