Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1	85R3298 JCG-D
2	2	By: Price H.B. No. 1885
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to certain required reports prepared by state agencies and
8	8	other governmental entities.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 51.751(b), Education Code, is amended to
11	11	read as follows:
12	12	(b) The center shall examine the efficiency of the public
13	13	school system and the effectiveness of instructional methods and
14	14	curricular programs and promote the use of successful methods and
15	15	programs. The center shall monitor and evaluate the implementation
16	16	of the accountability system under Chapter 39 [and provide annual
17	17	progress reports to the governor, Legislative Budget Board, and
18	18	commissioner of education].
19	19	SECTION 2. Section 531.421, Government Code, is amended to
20	20	read as follows:
21	21	Sec. 531.421. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
22	22	(1) "Children with severe emotional disturbances"
23	23	includes:
24	24	(A) children who are at risk of incarceration or
25	25	placement in a residential mental health facility;
26	26	(B) children for whom a court may appoint the
27	27	Department of Family and Protective Services as managing
28	28	conservator;
29	29	(C) children who are students in a special
30	30	education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code;
31	31	and
32	32	(D) children who have a substance abuse disorder
33	33	or a developmental disability.
34	34	(2) "Community resource coordination group" means a
35	35	coordination group established under a memorandum of understanding
36	36	adopted under Section 531.055.
37	37	(3) ["Consortium" means the Texas System of Care
38	38	Consortium established under Subchapter G-1.
39	39	[(4)] "Systems of care services" means a comprehensive
40	40	state system of mental health services and other necessary and
41	41	related services that is organized as a coordinated network to meet
42	42	the multiple and changing needs of children with severe emotional
43	43	disturbances and their families.
44	44	SECTION 3. Section 531.422(c), Government Code, is amended
45	45	to read as follows:
46	46	(c) Each community resource coordination group shall submit
47	47	the report described by Subsection (b) to the commission
48	48	[consortium]. The commission [consortium] shall provide a deadline
49	49	to each group for submitting the reports. The time frame for
50	50	completing the reports must be coordinated with any regional
51	51	reviews by the commission of the delivery of related services.
52	52	SECTION 4. Section 531.423, Government Code, is amended to
53	53	read as follows:
54	54	Sec. 531.423. SUMMARY REPORT BY COMMISSION [CONSORTIUM].
55	55	(a) The commission [consortium] shall create a summary report
56	56	based on the evaluations in the reports submitted to the commission
57	57	[consortium] by community resource coordination groups under
58	58	Section 531.422. The commission's [consortium's] report must
59	59	include recommendations for policy and statutory changes at each
60	60	agency that is involved in the provision of systems of care services
61	61	and the outcome expected from implementing each recommendation.
62	62	(b) The commission [consortium] shall coordinate, where
63	63	appropriate, the recommendations in the report created under this
64	64	section with recommendations in the assessment developed under S.B.
65	65	No. 491, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, and
66	66	with the continuum of care developed under S.B. No. 490, Acts of the
67	67	78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003.
68	68	(c) The commission [consortium] may include in the report
69	69	created under this section recommendations for the statewide
70	70	expansion of sites participating in the Texas System of Care
71	71	Framework and the integration of services provided at those sites
72	72	with services provided by community resource coordination groups.
73	73	(d) The commission [consortium] shall provide a copy of the
74	74	report created under this section to each agency for which the
75	75	report makes a recommendation and to other agencies as appropriate.
76	76	SECTION 5. Section 552.009(d), Government Code, is amended
77	77	to read as follows:
78	78	(d) The members of the committee who represent state
79	79	governmental bodies and the public members of the committee shall
80	80	periodically study and determine the types of public information
81	81	for which it would be useful to the public or cost-effective for the
82	82	government if the type of information were made available by state
83	83	governmental bodies by means of the Internet or another electronic
84	84	format. The committee shall report its findings and
85	85	recommendations to the governor, the presiding officer of each
86	86	house of the legislature, [and] the budget committee of the house of
87	87	representatives, and the state affairs committee of each house of
88	88	the legislature.
89	89	SECTION 6. Section 2102.009, Government Code, is amended to
90	90	read as follows:
91	91	Sec. 2102.009. ANNUAL REPORT. The internal auditor shall
92	92	prepare an annual report and submit the report before November 1 of
93	93	each year to the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, [the
94	94	Sunset Advisory Commission,] the state auditor, the state agency's
95	95	governing board, and the administrator. The state auditor shall
96	96	prescribe the form and content of the report, subject to the
97	97	approval of the legislative audit committee.
98	98	SECTION 7. The heading to Subchapter E, Chapter 386, Health
99	99	and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
100	100	SUBCHAPTER E. EVALUATION OF UTILITY COMMISSION [AND COMPTROLLER]
101	101	ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS
102	102	SECTION 8. Section 386.205, Health and Safety Code, is
103	103	amended to read as follows:
104	104	Sec. 386.205. EVALUATION OF UTILITY COMMISSION [AND
105	105	COMPTROLLER] ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS. In cooperation with the
106	106	laboratory, the utility commission shall provide an annual report
107	107	to the commission that, by county, quantifies the reductions of
108	108	energy demand, peak loads, and associated emissions of air
109	109	contaminants achieved [from programs implemented by the state
110	110	energy conservation office and] from programs implemented under
111	111	Section 39.905, Utilities Code.
112	112	SECTION 9. Section 13, Chapter 1282 (H.B. 2), Acts of the
113	113	84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is amended to read as
114	114	follows:
115	115	Sec. 13. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION: MEDICAID
116	116	HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDERS FEE AND ASSOCIATED FEDERAL INCOME TAX.
117	117	In addition to amounts previously appropriated for the state fiscal
118	118	biennium ending August 31, 2015, $79,685,024 is appropriated out of
119	119	the general revenue fund, and $113,570,204 is appropriated out of
120	120	federal funds, to the Health and Human Services Commission for Goal
121	121	B, Medicaid, as listed in Chapter 1411 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 83rd
122	122	Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (the General Appropriations
123	123	Act), for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2015, for the
124	124	purpose of adjusting Medicaid capitation payments made to managed
125	125	care organizations providing health care services through managed
126	126	care plans under the Medicaid program to account for the health
127	127	insurance providers fee imposed under Section 9010 of the federal
128	128	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148),
129	129	as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of
130	130	2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-152), and the associated effects of that fee
131	131	on federal income taxes. [Before the Health and Human Services
132	132	Commission makes any capitation payments to managed care
133	133	organizations that are adjusted using money appropriated under this
134	134	section, the executive commissioner of the commission shall submit
135	135	a report to the Legislative Budget Board that specifies:
136	136	[(1) the methodology and bases used to determine the
137	137	amount of the capitation payment adjustments;
138	138	[(2) the amounts by which capitation payments are
139	139	adjusted using money appropriated under this section; and
140	140	[(3) whether any managed care organization that is a
141	141	recipient of a capitation payment adjustment paid using money
142	142	appropriated under this section was also a recipient of one or more
143	143	other Medicaid capitation payment adjustments paid during the state
144	144	fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, or August 31, 2015, and the
145	145	aggregate cost to this state of the other Medicaid capitation
146	146	payment adjustments paid during those bienniums.]
147	147	SECTION 10. The following provisions are repealed:
148	148	(1) Section 22.0252(b), Human Resources Code; and
149	149	(2) Section 26.3574(x), Water Code.
150	150	SECTION 11. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.