Bill Text: TX SB1641 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a pilot program to provide protective services to certain persons determined to be at risk of future harm from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-27 - Postponed [SB1641 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1641-Comm_Sub.html
By: West, et al. | S.B. No. 1641 | |
(Rose, Peña) | ||
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relating to the establishment of a pilot program to provide | ||
protective services to certain persons determined to be at risk of | ||
future harm from abuse, neglect, or exploitation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 48, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 48.212 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 48.212. PILOT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE PROTECTIVE SERVICES | ||
TO PERSONS AT RISK OF FUTURE HARM. (a) Notwithstanding any other | ||
law, including Section 48.002(a)(5), the department shall, using | ||
existing resources, develop and implement a pilot program that | ||
evaluates the feasibility and associated benefits of providing | ||
protective services when an elderly person or person with a | ||
disability has been determined, using criteria developed under | ||
Section 48.004, to be at risk of future harm from abuse, neglect, or | ||
exploitation, but who is not in a state of abuse, neglect, or | ||
exploitation. | ||
(b) Section 48.1523 does not apply to reports considered | ||
under the pilot program developed under this section. | ||
(c) The department may terminate the pilot program if the | ||
executive commissioner determines the termination is appropriate. | ||
The pilot program terminates August 31, 2017, unless the program is | ||
terminated before that date in accordance with this subsection. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2016, the Department of | ||
Family and Protective Services shall develop and implement the | ||
pilot program required under Section 48.212, Human Resources Code, | ||
as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than December 15, 2016, the | ||
Department of Family and Protective Services shall prepare and | ||
issue a report of preliminary findings from the pilot program | ||
required under Section 48.212, Human Resources Code, as added by | ||
this Act, to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the | ||
standing legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over | ||
health and human services. | ||
(b) Not later than December 15, 2017, the Department of | ||
Family and Protective Services shall submit a final report on the | ||
pilot program to the persons and entities described under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section. The report must include: | ||
(1) an evaluation of the feasibility and benefits of | ||
the pilot program; | ||
(2) any additional findings the department determines | ||
appropriate; and | ||
(3) recommendations for the continuation, | ||
elimination, or expansion of the pilot program. | ||
SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |