82R1647 EES-D
By: Nelson S.B. No. 71
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain reports submitted by health and human services
agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 531.1235(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The advisory board shall prepare a biennial [an annual]
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 2. Section 531.124(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The advisory board shall biennially [annually] review
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 3. Section 22.005(d), 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
the system. [At the end of each fiscal biennium the department shall
report to the comptroller the amount of the unencumbered balances
in each of the department's operating funds that belongs to the
children's assistance fund and the medical assistance fund, and
those unencumbered balances shall be returned to the appropriate
special fund.]
SECTION 4. 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
standardized system[; and
[(3) not later than August 31 of each year, submit to
the office a report relating to transportation services that
complies with the standardized system].
SECTION 5. 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[; and
[(3) not later than September 30 of each even-numbered
year, submit a report by electronic mail and by hand delivery to the
governor, the secretary of state, the Legislative Budget Board, and
the commissioner relating to the results of the review conducted by
the office under this section].
SECTION 6. (a) Sections 531.0243, 531.029, 531.0311,
531.603, 752.005, and 752.006, Government Code, are repealed.
(b) Subchapter G, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 7. Sections 533.049(b), 533.050(b), and 1001.031,
Health and Safety Code, are repealed.
SECTION 8. Sections 22.0255(c), 31.0325(d), 117.031, and
161.031, Human Resources Code, are repealed.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.