Bill Text: TX SB45 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of employment assistance and supported employment to certain Medicaid waiver program participants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB45 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB45-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of employment assistance and supported employment to certain Medicaid waiver program participants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB45 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB45-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 45 | |
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| relating to the provision of employment assistance and supported | ||
| employment to certain Medicaid waiver program participants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 32.075 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.075. EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORTED | ||
| EMPLOYMENT. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Employment assistance" means assistance provided | ||
| to an individual to help the individual locate paid employment in | ||
| the community. Employment assistance includes: | ||
| (A) identifying an individual's employment | ||
| preferences, job skills, and requirements for a work setting and | ||
| work conditions; | ||
| (B) locating prospective employers offering | ||
| employment compatible with an individual's identified preferences, | ||
| skills, and requirements; and | ||
| (C) contacting a prospective employer on behalf | ||
| of an individual and negotiating the individual's employment. | ||
| (2) "Supported employment" means employment in which | ||
| assistance is provided, in order to sustain paid employment, to an | ||
| individual who, because of a disability, requires intensive, | ||
| ongoing support to perform in a work setting. Supported employment | ||
| is provided at a work site at which individuals without | ||
| disabilities are employed and includes adaptations, supervision, | ||
| and training related to an individual's diagnosis. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to the following medical | ||
| assistance waiver programs: | ||
| (1) the community based alternatives program; | ||
| (2) the community living assistance and support | ||
| services program; | ||
| (3) the deaf-blind with multiple disabilities | ||
| program; | ||
| (4) the home and community-based services program; | ||
| (5) the medically dependent children program; | ||
| (6) the STAR + PLUS Medicaid managed care program; and | ||
| (7) the Texas home living program. | ||
| (c) The department shall provide employment assistance and | ||
| supported employment to participants in the waiver programs | ||
| identified in Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as possible after the effective date of | ||
| this Act, the Health and Human Services Commission shall apply for | ||
| any waiver or other authorization necessary to implement this Act. | ||
| The commission may delay implementing this Act until the waiver or | ||
| authorization is granted. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
