Bill Text: TX SB956 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to repealing the coordinated strategic plan for health and human services in this state, including related conforming amendments.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB956 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB956-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 956

AN ACT
relating to repealing the coordinated strategic plan for health and
human services in this state, including related conforming
amendments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 531.024(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The executive commissioner shall:
(1) facilitate and enforce coordinated planning and
delivery of health and human services, including:
(A) [compliance with the coordinated strategic
plan;
[(B)] co-location of services;
(B) [(C)] integrated intake; and
(C) [(D)] coordinated referral and case
management;
(2) develop with the Department of Information
Resources automation standards for computer systems to enable
health and human services agencies, including agencies operating at
a local level, to share pertinent data;
(3) establish and enforce uniform regional boundaries
for all health and human services agencies;
(4) carry out statewide health and human services
needs surveys and forecasting;
(5) perform independent special-outcome evaluations
of health and human services programs and activities;
(6) at the request of a governmental entity that
coordinates the delivery of health and human services in regions,
counties, and municipalities of this state [identified under
Section 531.022(e)], assist the [that] entity in implementing a
coordinated plan that may include co-location of services,
integrated intake, and coordinated referral and case management and
is tailored to the needs and priorities of that entity; and
(7) promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all
Medicaid-funded services.
SECTION 2. Section 531.028(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The executive commissioner shall establish a federal
money management system to coordinate and monitor the use of
federal money that is received by health and human services
agencies to ensure that the money is spent in the most efficient
manner and shall:
(1) establish priorities for use of federal money by
all health and human services agencies[, in coordination with the
coordinated strategic plan established under Section 531.022];
(2) coordinate and monitor the use of federal money
for health and human services to ensure that the money is spent in
the most cost-effective manner throughout the health and human
services system;
(3) review and approve all federal funding plans for
health and human services in this state;
(4) estimate available federal money, including
earned federal money, and monitor unspent money;
(5) ensure that the state meets federal requirements
relating to receipt of federal money for health and human services,
including requirements relating to state matching money and
maintenance of effort;
(6) transfer appropriated amounts as described by
Section 531.0271; and
(7) ensure that each governmental entity that
coordinates the delivery of health and human services in regions,
counties, and municipalities of this state [identified under
Section 531.022(e)] has access to complete and timely information
about all sources of federal money for health and human services
programs and that technical assistance is available to governmental
entities seeking grants of federal money to provide health and
human services.
SECTION 3. Section 533.032(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall have a long-range plan relating to
the provision of services under this title covering at least six
years that includes at least the provisions required by Section
[Sections 531.022 and] 531.023, Government Code, and Chapter 2056,
Government Code. The plan must cover the provision of services in
and policies for state-operated institutions and ensure that the
medical needs of the most medically fragile persons with mental
illness the department serves are met.
SECTION 4. Section 533A.032(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall have a long-range plan relating to
the provision of services under this title covering at least six
years that includes at least the provisions required by Section
[Sections 531.022 and] 531.023, Government Code, and Chapter 2056,
Government Code. The plan must cover the provision of services in
and policies for state-operated institutions and ensure that the
medical needs of the most medically fragile persons with an
intellectual disability the department serves are met.
SECTION 5. Section 40.051, Human Resources Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 40.051. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DEPARTMENT. The department
shall develop a departmental strategic plan based on [the goals and
priorities stated in the commission's coordinated strategic plan
for health and human services. The department shall also develop
its plan based on]:
(1) furthering the policy of family preservation;
(2) the goal of ending the abuse and neglect of
children in the conservatorship of the department; and
(3) the goal of increasing the capacity and
availability of foster, relative, and kinship placements in this
state.
SECTION 6. Section 531.022, Government Code, is repealed.
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 956 passed the Senate on
April 13, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 956 passed the House on
May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 111, Nays 27,
one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor