Bill Text: TX HB728 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the statewide interagency aging services coordinating council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB728 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB728-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 728

AN ACT
relating to the statewide interagency aging services coordinating
council.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subchapter M-2 to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER M-2. STATEWIDE INTERAGENCY AGING SERVICES COORDINATING
COUNCIL
Sec. 531.491. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
(1) "Council" means the statewide interagency aging
services coordinating council.
(2) "Strategic plan" means the statewide interagency
aging services strategic plan required under Section 531.497(1).
Sec. 531.492. PURPOSE. The council is established to
ensure a strategic statewide approach to interagency aging
services.
Sec. 531.493. COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL. (a) Subject to
Subsection (b), the council is composed of at least one
representative appointed by each of the following agencies and
entities:
(1) the governor's office;
(2) the commission, including one representative of
the commission's aging services coordination office;
(3) the Department of Family and Protective Services;
(4) the Department of State Health Services;
(5) the Department of Agriculture's office of rural
health;
(6) the Texas Veterans Commission;
(7) the Texas Workforce Commission;
(8) the office of the attorney general;
(9) the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging
Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio;
(10) the Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium at The
University of Texas at Austin; and
(11) the Center for Community Health and Aging at
Texas A&M University.
(b) The executive commissioner shall determine the number
of representatives that each agency or entity may appoint to serve
on the council.
(c) The council may authorize another state agency or entity
that provides specific interagency aging services with the use of
appropriated money to appoint a representative to the council.
(d) A council member serves at the pleasure of the
appointing agency or entity.
Sec. 531.494. TERMS; VACANCY. (a) Council members serve
six-year terms.
(b) A vacancy on the council shall be filled in the same
manner as the original appointment. A council member appointed to
fill a vacancy on the council shall serve the remainder of the
unexpired term.
Sec. 531.495. PRESIDING OFFICER. The representative of the
commission's aging services coordination office appointed under
Section 531.493(a) shall serve as the presiding officer.
Sec. 531.496. MEETINGS. The council shall meet at least
once quarterly or more frequently at the call of the presiding
officer.
Sec. 531.497. POWERS AND DUTIES. The council:
(1) shall, in accordance with Section 531.498:
(A) develop a recurring five-year statewide
interagency aging services strategic plan; and
(B) submit the strategic plan to the executive
commissioner and the administrative head of each agency subject to
the strategic plan;
(2) shall develop and, not later than November 1 of
each even-numbered year, submit to the legislature a biennial
coordinated statewide interagency aging services expenditure
proposal;
(3) shall annually publish an updated inventory of
state-funded interagency aging programs and services that includes
a description of how those programs and services further the
purpose of the statewide interagency aging services strategic plan;
(4) may facilitate opportunities to increase
collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal
and state money for interagency aging services in this state; and
(5) may establish subcommittees as necessary to carry
out the council's duties under this subchapter.
Sec. 531.498. RECURRING FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN AND
RELATED IMPLEMENTATION PLANS. (a) Not later than March 1 of the
last state fiscal year in each five-year period covered by the most
recent strategic plan, the council shall:
(1) develop a new strategic plan for the next five
state fiscal years that begins with the following fiscal year; and
(2) submit the new strategic plan to the executive
commissioner and the administrative head of each agency subject to
the strategic plan.
(b) Not later than the 90th day after receiving the
strategic plan, the executive commissioner and the administrative
head of each agency that is subject to the plan shall develop and
submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the
legislature a plan for implementing the recommendations applicable
to the agency under the strategic plan. An implementation plan must
include a justification for any recommendation the commission or
other agency declines to implement.
Sec. 531.499. APPLICATION OF SUNSET ACT. The council is
subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). The council shall be
reviewed during the period in which the commission is reviewed
under Section 531.004. Unless continued in existence as provided by
Chapter 325, the council is abolished and this subchapter expires
on the date on which the commission is subject to abolishment under
that section.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than January 31, 2024, the
appropriate appointing agencies or entities shall appoint the
members of the statewide interagency aging services coordinating
council as required by Section 531.493, Government Code, as added
by this Act.
(b) Not later than March 31, 2024, the statewide interagency
aging services coordinating council established under Subchapter
M-2, Chapter 531, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall hold
its initial meeting.
(c) Not later than March 1, 2025, the statewide interagency
aging services coordinating council shall submit the initial
five-year statewide interagency aging services strategic plan
required under Section 531.497, 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, 2023.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 728 was passed by the House on April
12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 97, Nays 47, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 728 was passed by the Senate on May
17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor