By: Garcia S.B. No. 1892
(Menendez)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the Texas Coordinating Council for
Veterans Services and coordinating workgroups established by the
council.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 434.153, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 434.153. COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL. The council is
composed of the director or executive head of the following
entities [agencies], or that person's designated representative:
(1) the Texas Veterans Commission;
(2) the Veterans' Land Board;
(3) the adjutant general's department;
(4) the Health and Human Services Commission; [and]
(5) the State Bar of Texas;
(6) the office of acquired brain injury of the Health
and Human Services Commission;
(7) the Department of State Health Services;
(8) the Department of Aging and Disability Services;
(9) the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative
Services;
(10) the Department of Family and Protective Services;
(11) the Texas Workforce Commission;
(12) the Texas Workforce Investment Council;
(13) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
(14) the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation;
(15) the Department of Public Safety;
(16) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
(17) the Commission on Jail Standards;
(18) the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
Standards and Education;
(19) the Texas Department of Housing and Community
Affairs;
(20) the Texas Department of Transportation;
(21) the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles; and
(22) the Office of Public Utility Counsel.
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 434.154, Government Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 434.154. COORDINATING WORKGROUPS[; ADDITIONAL COUNCIL
MEMBERS].
SECTION 3. Subsections (a) and (g), Section 434.154,
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The council may, by majority vote, establish the
following coordinating workgroups to focus on specific issues
affecting veterans, servicemembers, and their families:
(1) health or mental health;
(2) employment;
(3) higher education;
(4) criminal justice;
(5) housing; [and]
(6) transportation;
(7) women veterans; and
(8) any other coordinating workgroup considered
necessary.
(g) Each member of the council may invite organizations [one
organization] or agencies [agency] that provide [provides]
services to veterans, servicemembers, and their families, but that
are [is] not otherwise members [a member] of the council, to each
designate a representative to participate in a coordinating
workgroup through procedures established by the council.
SECTION 4. Subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), Section
434.154, Government Code, are repealed.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.