81R8460 GCB-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 1905
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to studying the costs and benefits of a pilot program for
services for adults with autism.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Department of Aging and Disability
Services shall conduct a study to determine the costs and benefits
to this state of initiating a pilot program to provide services to
adult persons with autism.
(b) The study must identify:
(1) the potential benefit to adult persons with autism
of receiving services involving:
(A) behavioral counseling;
(B) employment;
(C) home-based care;
(D) living arrangements; and
(E) medical care;
(2) the potential number of persons with autism the
pilot program may serve;
(3) which agency or agencies are appropriate to design
or administer the pilot program;
(4) which Medicaid waiver programs are appropriate to
the pilot program;
(5) whether new Medicaid waiver programs may be
required;
(6) how other states provide services to adult persons
with autism; and
(7) the administrative costs the state is likely to
incur in designing and administering the pilot program.
(c) Not later than September 1, 2011, the Department of
Aging and Disabilities Services shall submit a report of the
findings and conclusions of the study to the governor, the
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,
and the presiding officers of the standing committees of the senate
and house of representatives with primary jurisdiction over the
provision of services to persons with disabilities.
SECTION 2. 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, 2009.