Bill Text: TX HB4598 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reestablishing the in-home and family support program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to Human Services [HB4598 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4598-Introduced.html
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| By: Walle | H.B. No. 4598 | |
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| relating to reestablishing the in-home and family support program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter T to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER T. IN-HOME AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 531.801. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Disability" means a physical impairment that: | ||
| (A) is likely to continue indefinitely; | ||
| (B) results in substantial functional | ||
| limitations in one or more of the following areas of major life | ||
| activity as determined under the disabilities screening | ||
| instrument: | ||
| (i) self-care; | ||
| (ii) receptive and expressive language; | ||
| (iii) learning; | ||
| (iv) mobility; | ||
| (v) self-direction; or | ||
| (vi) capacity for independent living; and | ||
| (C) is likely to require treatment or services | ||
| that are lifelong or of extended duration. | ||
| (2) "Program" means the in-home and family support | ||
| program established under this subchapter. | ||
| Sec. 531.802. IN-HOME AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM. The | ||
| executive commissioner by rule shall establish the in-home and | ||
| family support program to provide benefits to an individual with a | ||
| disability that allows the individual or the legal guardian of the | ||
| individual to purchase items that enable the individual to reside | ||
| in a community-based setting. The program must be designed in | ||
| substantially the same manner as the in-home and family support | ||
| program formerly administered by the former Department of Aging and | ||
| Disability Services under 40 T.A.C. Chapter 48, Subchapter F. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
