85R8858 MK-D
By: Watson S.B. No. 699
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of a kinship caregiver navigator
program by the Health and Human Services Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 531.0881 to read as follows:
Sec. 531.0881. KINSHIP CAREGIVER NAVIGATOR PROGRAM. (a)
The executive commissioner, using existing resources, shall
establish a statewide kinship caregiver navigator program that
facilitates access to information and referrals to services for
relative and kinship caregivers of children.
(b) The kinship caregiver navigator program established
under this section must include an information and referral
network. The information and referral network shall incorporate all
health and human services agencies and divisions within the
commission that provide services to children, including:
(1) the Department of Family and Protective Services;
(2) the Department of State Health Services; and
(3) any division of the commission that oversees:
(A) social services;
(B) community-based services; or
(C) access and eligibility for Medicaid or the
child health plan program and the services provided through those
programs.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.