Bill Text: TX SB1677 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to information about services for women veterans provided through certain state agency applications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1677-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to information about services for women veterans provided through certain state agency applications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1677-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1677 |
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relating to information about services for women veterans provided | ||
through certain state agency and hospital applications. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 434, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 434.212 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 434.212. APPLICATION FOR STATE AGENCY PROGRAMS, | ||
SERVICES, OR ASSISTANCE OR HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES. (a) This | ||
section applies to: | ||
(1) a state agency in the executive branch of state | ||
government, including a health and human services agency, that | ||
provides to adult women in this state a program, a service, or | ||
assistance, including the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | ||
program, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the | ||
women's health program, Medicaid, the Special Supplemental | ||
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and a housing | ||
program or service or housing assistance; and | ||
(2) a hospital licensed under Chapter 241, Health and | ||
Safety Code, that provides health care services to adult women in | ||
this state. | ||
(b) A state agency or hospital described by Subsection (a) | ||
shall include in each application for a program, a service, or | ||
assistance provided by the agency or hospital to adult women: | ||
(1) a space to indicate whether the applicant is a | ||
veteran; | ||
(2) notice that on indication under Subdivision (1) | ||
that the applicant is a veteran, the agency or hospital will forward | ||
the applicant's information to the commission; and | ||
(3) model language informing the applicant that she | ||
may be entitled to additional services because of her veteran | ||
status. | ||
(c) On receipt of information provided under Subsection | ||
(b), the commission shall enter the information into a database | ||
established by the commission and contact the applicant to inform | ||
her of any additional services for which the applicant may qualify | ||
under state or federal law. | ||
(d) The commission shall develop the model language | ||
required on an application under Subsection (b)(3). The language | ||
must include a link to the veterans website established under | ||
Section 434.102 or, for an online application, a hyperlink to that | ||
website. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 241, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 241.0075 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 241.0075. COMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN APPLICATION | ||
REQUIREMENTS. A hospital shall comply with Section 434.212, | ||
Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than December 1, 2018, the Texas | ||
Veterans Commission shall develop the model application language | ||
required by Section 434.212, Government Code, as added by this Act, | ||
and post that information on the commission's Internet website. | ||
(b) Not later than January 1, 2018, each state agency and | ||
hospital subject to Section 434.212, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, shall modify the agency's or hospital's application for | ||
programs, services, or assistance as necessary to implement that | ||
section. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Section 434.212, Government Code, as | ||
added by this Act, a state agency or hospital is not required to | ||
include information on the application as required by that section | ||
before January 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |