Bill Text: TX SB71 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain reports submitted and analyses conducted regarding health and human services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB71 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB71-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain reports submitted and analyses conducted regarding health and human services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB71 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB71-Comm_Sub.html
By: Nelson | S.B. No. 71 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 8, 2010; January 31, 2011, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
Services; March 28, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
March 28, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 71 | By: Nelson |
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relating to certain reports submitted and analyses conducted by | ||
health and human services agencies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 531.0274, Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0274. COORDINATION AND APPROVAL OF CASELOAD | ||
ESTIMATES[ |
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SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 531.1235, Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The advisory board shall prepare a biennial [ |
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report with respect to the recommendations of the advisory board | ||
under Subsection (a). The advisory board shall file the report with | ||
the commission, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, | ||
the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house | ||
of representatives not later than December 15 of each even-numbered | ||
year. | ||
SECTION 3. Subsection (b), Section 531.124, Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The advisory board shall biennially [ |
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and comment on the minimum standards adopted under Section 111.041 | ||
and the plan implemented under Subsection (a) and shall include its | ||
conclusions in the report submitted under Section 531.1235. | ||
SECTION 4. Subsection (d), Section 22.005, Human Resources | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) With the approval of the comptroller, the department | ||
shall establish an internal accounting system, and the department's | ||
expenditures shall be allocated to the various funds according to | ||
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SECTION 5. Subsection (d), Section 33.002, Human Resources | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) The department shall continually monitor the expedited | ||
issuance of food stamp benefits to ensure that each region in the | ||
state complies with federal regulations and that those households | ||
eligible for expedited issuance are identified, processed, and | ||
certified within the timeframes prescribed within the federal | ||
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SECTION 6. Section 34.006, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 34.006. STUDY. The Texas Workforce Commission, in | ||
collaboration with local workforce development boards and the | ||
appropriate standing committees of the senate and house of | ||
representatives, shall: | ||
(1) study methods to improve the delivery of workforce | ||
services to persons residing in minimum service counties, as | ||
defined by the commission; and | ||
(2) develop recommendations to improve the delivery of | ||
services described by Subdivision (1) [ |
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SECTION 7. Section 131.005, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 131.005. REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEM. Each health | ||
and human services agency that provides, purchases, or otherwise | ||
funds transportation services for clients shall: | ||
(1) comply with the standardized system of reporting | ||
and accounting established by the office under Section | ||
131.003(a)(3); and | ||
(2) make any changes to agency data collection systems | ||
that are necessary to enable the agency to comply with the | ||
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SECTION 8. Section 131.006, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 131.006. IMPLEMENTATION OF STATEWIDE COORDINATION | ||
PLAN. In order to implement the statewide coordination plan | ||
created by the office under Section 131.003(a)(2), the office | ||
shall: | ||
(1) review rules, policies, contracts, grants, and | ||
funding mechanisms relating to transportation services of each | ||
health and human services agency that provides, purchases, or | ||
otherwise funds transportation services for clients to determine | ||
whether the rules, policies, contracts, grants, and funding | ||
mechanisms are consistent with the plan; and | ||
(2) make recommendations for revisions to rules, | ||
policies, contracts, grants, and funding mechanisms determined | ||
under Subdivision (1) to be inconsistent with the plan[ |
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SECTION 9. The following provisions of the Government Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 531.0243; | ||
(2) Subsection (b), Section 531.0273; | ||
(3) Subsections (c), (d), and (e), Section 531.0274; | ||
(4) Section 531.029; | ||
(5) Section 531.0311; | ||
(6) Subsection (b), Section 531.056; | ||
(7) Subsection (l), Section 531.070; | ||
(8) Subsection (f), Section 531.110; | ||
(9) Section 531.603; | ||
(10) Section 752.005; | ||
(11) Section 752.006; and | ||
(12) Subchapter G, Chapter 531. | ||
SECTION 10. The following provisions of the Health and | ||
Safety Code are repealed: | ||
(1) Subsection (e), Section 62.104; | ||
(2) Subsections (f), (g), and (h), Section 108.0065; | ||
(3) Subsection (b), Section 533.049; | ||
(4) Subsection (b), Section 533.050; and | ||
(5) Section 1001.031. | ||
SECTION 11. The following provisions of the Human Resources | ||
Code are repealed: | ||
(1) Subsection (b), Section 22.025; | ||
(2) Subsection (c), Section 22.0255; | ||
(3) Section 31.0034; | ||
(4) Subsection (d), Section 31.0325; | ||
(5) Subsection (d), Section 32.048; | ||
(6) Subsection (d), Section 32.055; | ||
(7) Section 32.257; | ||
(8) Subsection (c), Section 33.0022; | ||
(9) Section 34.007; | ||
(10) Section 117.031; and | ||
(11) Section 161.031. | ||
SECTION 12. Section 1.23, Chapter 198 (H.B. 2292), Acts of | ||
the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 13. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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