Bill Text: TX SB1071 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program to provide home-delivered meals to certain individuals.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1071 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1071-Introduced.html
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| By: Watson | S.B. No. 1071 | |
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| relating to a pilot program to provide home-delivered meals to | ||
| certain individuals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 33.037 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.037. HOME-DELIVERED MEALS PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
| commission shall develop and implement a pilot program to provide | ||
| home-delivered meals to a targeted group of individuals, selected | ||
| by the commission, with a medical condition that would improve with | ||
| home-delivered meals. | ||
| (b) Using existing resources, the commission may spend not | ||
| more than $2 million to develop and implement the pilot program. | ||
| (c) The commission shall implement the pilot program in one | ||
| urban and one rural region of the state, selected by the commission | ||
| based on the availability of and need for home-delivered meal | ||
| services. Within each region, the commission shall ensure | ||
| medically tailored meals are provided to one subset of individuals | ||
| and standard meals are provided to the other subset of individuals. | ||
| (d) To the extent practicable, the commission shall seek to | ||
| contract with an entity that provides additional services along | ||
| with home-delivered meal services. | ||
| (e) The commission shall operate the pilot program for one | ||
| year. | ||
| (f) The commission shall track health outcomes of and the | ||
| use of health care services by individuals participating in the | ||
| pilot program and analyze the data to determine if the pilot program | ||
| results in health care savings. The commission shall partner with | ||
| an institution of higher education to conduct the analysis under | ||
| this subsection. | ||
| (g) Not later than October 31, 2020, the commission shall | ||
| prepare and submit to the legislature a report describing the | ||
| results of the analysis under Subsection (f) and recommendations | ||
| regarding the continuation or expansion of the program. | ||
| (h) This section expires December 31, 2020. | ||
| 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. | ||
