Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1		By: Nelson S.B. No. 80
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2016; January 24, 2017,
3		-	read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
4		-	March 20, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5		-	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 20, 2017,
6		-	sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
8		-	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 80 By: Creighton
	2	+	(Price)
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11	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
12	6		AN ACT
13	7		relating to certain required reports prepared by state agencies and
14	8		other governmental entities.
15	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
16	10		SECTION 1. Section 51.751(b), Education Code, is amended to
17	11		read as follows:
18	12		(b) The center shall examine the efficiency of the public
19	13		school system and the effectiveness of instructional methods and
20	14		curricular programs and promote the use of successful methods and
21	15		programs. The center shall monitor and evaluate the implementation
22	16		of the accountability system under Chapter 39 [and provide annual
23	17		progress reports to the governor, Legislative Budget Board, and
24	18		commissioner of education].
25	19		SECTION 2. Section 531.421, Government Code, is amended to
26	20		read as follows:
27	21		Sec. 531.421. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
28	22		(1) "Children with severe emotional disturbances"
29	23		includes:
30	24		(A) children who are at risk of incarceration or
31	25		placement in a residential mental health facility;
32	26		(B) children for whom a court may appoint the
33	27		Department of Family and Protective Services as managing
34	28		conservator;
35	29		(C) children who are students in a special
36	30		education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code;
37	31		and
38	32		(D) children who have a substance abuse disorder
39	33		or a developmental disability.
40	34		(2) "Community resource coordination group" means a
41	35		coordination group established under a memorandum of understanding
42	36		adopted under Section 531.055.
43	37		(3) ["Consortium" means the Texas System of Care
44	38		Consortium established under Subchapter G-1.
45	39		[(4)] "Systems of care services" means a comprehensive
46	40		state system of mental health services and other necessary and
47	41		related services that is organized as a coordinated network to meet
48	42		the multiple and changing needs of children with severe emotional
49	43		disturbances and their families.
50	44		SECTION 3. Section 531.422(c), Government Code, is amended
51	45		to read as follows:
52	46		(c) Each community resource coordination group shall submit
53	47		the report described by Subsection (b) to the commission
54	48		[consortium]. The commission [consortium] shall provide a deadline
55	49		to each group for submitting the reports. The time frame for
56	50		completing the reports must be coordinated with any regional
57	51		reviews by the commission of the delivery of related services.
58	52		SECTION 4. Section 531.423, Government Code, is amended to
59	53		read as follows:
60	54		Sec. 531.423. SUMMARY REPORT BY COMMISSION [CONSORTIUM].
61	55		(a) The commission [consortium] shall create a summary report
62	56		based on the evaluations in the reports submitted to the commission
63	57		[consortium] by community resource coordination groups under
64	58		Section 531.422. The commission's [consortium's] report must
65	59		include recommendations for policy and statutory changes at each
66	60		agency that is involved in the provision of systems of care services
67	61		and the outcome expected from implementing each recommendation.
68	62		(b) The commission [consortium] shall coordinate, where
69	63		appropriate, the recommendations in the report created under this
70	64		section with recommendations in the assessment developed under S.B.
71	65		No. 491, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, and
72	66		with the continuum of care developed under S.B. No. 490, Acts of the
73	67		78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003.
74	68		(c) The commission [consortium] may include in the report
75	69		created under this section recommendations for the statewide
76	70		expansion of sites participating in the Texas System of Care
77	71		Framework and the integration of services provided at those sites
78	72		with services provided by community resource coordination groups.
79	73		(d) The commission [consortium] shall provide a copy of the
80	74		report created under this section to each agency for which the
81	75		report makes a recommendation and to other agencies as appropriate.
82	76		SECTION 5. Section 2056.002(d), Government Code, is amended
83	77		to read as follows:
84	78		(d) A state agency shall send two copies of each plan to both
85	79		the Legislative Reference Library and the state publications
86	80		clearinghouse of the Texas State Library and one copy each to:
87	81		(1) the governor;
88	82		(2) the lieutenant governor;
89	83		(3) the speaker of the house of representatives;
90	84		(4) the Legislative Budget Board;
91	85		(5) [the Sunset Advisory Commission;
92	86		[(6)] the state auditor; and
93	87		(6) [(7)] the Department of Information Resources.
94	88		SECTION 6. Section 2102.009, Government Code, is amended to
95	89		read as follows:
96	90		Sec. 2102.009. ANNUAL REPORT. The internal auditor shall
97	91		prepare an annual report and submit the report before November 1 of
98	92		each year to the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, [the
99	93		Sunset Advisory Commission,] the state auditor, the state agency's
100	94		governing board, and the administrator. The state auditor shall
101	95		prescribe the form and content of the report, subject to the
102	96		approval of the legislative audit committee.
103	97		SECTION 7. Section 2102.0091(a), Government Code, is
104	98		amended to read as follows:
105	99		(a) A state agency shall file with the division of the
106	100		governor's office responsible for budget and policy [Sunset
107	101		Advisory Commission, the Governor's Office of Budget, Planning, and
108	102		Policy], the state auditor, and the Legislative Budget Board a copy
109	103		of each report submitted to the state agency's governing board or
110	104		the administrator of the state agency if the state agency does not
111	105		have a governing board by the agency's internal auditor.
112	106		SECTION 8. Section 2306.908, Government Code, is amended to
113	107		read as follows:
114	108		Sec. 2306.908. REPORT. The council shall submit annually a
115	109		progress report to the governing bodies of the agencies represented
116	110		on the council, other than the governing body of the Department of
117	111		Aging and Disability Services or its successor agency.
118	112		SECTION 9. The heading to Subchapter E, Chapter 386, Health
119	113		and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
120	114		SUBCHAPTER E. EVALUATION OF UTILITY COMMISSION [AND COMPTROLLER]
121	115		ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS
122	116		SECTION 10. Section 386.205, Health and Safety Code, is
123	117		amended to read as follows:
124	118		Sec. 386.205. EVALUATION OF UTILITY COMMISSION [AND
125	119		COMPTROLLER] ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS. In cooperation with the
126	120		laboratory, the utility commission shall provide an annual report
127	121		to the commission that, by county, quantifies the reductions of
128	122		energy demand, peak loads, and associated emissions of air
129	123		contaminants achieved [from programs implemented by the state
130	124		energy conservation office and] from programs implemented under
131	125		Section 39.905, Utilities Code.
132	126		SECTION 11. Section 114.008(a), Human Resources Code, is
133	127		amended to read as follows:
134	128		(a) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year,
135	129		the council shall:
136	130		(1) prepare a report summarizing requirements the
137	131		council identifies and recommendations for providing additional or
138	132		improved services to persons with autism or other pervasive
139	133		developmental disorders; and
140	134		(2) deliver the report to [the executive
141	135		commissioner,] the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the
142	136		speaker of the house of representatives.
143	137		SECTION 12. Section 13.063(b), Utilities Code, is amended
144	138		to read as follows:
145	139		(b) The office shall prepare annually a report on the
146	140		office's activities during the preceding year and submit the report
147	141		to the standing legislative committees that have jurisdiction over
148	142		the office, the house appropriations committee, and the senate
149	143		finance committee[, and the Sunset Advisory Commission]. At a
150	144		minimum, the report must include:
151	145		(1) a list of the types of activities conducted by the
152	146		office and the time spent by the office on each activity;
153	147		(2) the number of hours billed by the office for
154	148		representing residential or small commercial consumers in
155	149		proceedings;
156	150		(3) the number of staff positions and the type of work
157	151		performed by each position; and
158	152		(4) the office's rate of success in representing
159	153		residential or small commercial consumers in appealing commission
160	154		decisions.
161	155		SECTION 13. Section 13, Chapter 1282 (H.B. 2), Acts of the
162	156		84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is amended to read as
163	157		follows:
164	158		Sec. 13. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION: MEDICAID
165	159		HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDERS FEE AND ASSOCIATED FEDERAL INCOME TAX.
166	160		In addition to amounts previously appropriated for the state fiscal
167	161		biennium ending August 31, 2015, $79,685,024 is appropriated out of
168	162		the general revenue fund, and $113,570,204 is appropriated out of
169	163		federal funds, to the Health and Human Services Commission for Goal
170	164		B, Medicaid, as listed in Chapter 1411 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 83rd
171	165		Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (the General Appropriations
172	166		Act), for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2015, for the
173	167		purpose of adjusting Medicaid capitation payments made to managed
174	168		care organizations providing health care services through managed
175	169		care plans under the Medicaid program to account for the health
176	170		insurance providers fee imposed under Section 9010 of the federal
177	171		Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148),
178	172		as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of
179	173		2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-152), and the associated effects of that fee
180	174		on federal income taxes. [Before the Health and Human Services
181	175		Commission makes any capitation payments to managed care
182	176		organizations that are adjusted using money appropriated under this
183	177		section, the executive commissioner of the commission shall submit
184	178		a report to the Legislative Budget Board that specifies:
185	179		[(1) the methodology and bases used to determine the
186	180		amount of the capitation payment adjustments;
187	181		[(2) the amounts by which capitation payments are
188	182		adjusted using money appropriated under this section; and
189	183		[(3) whether any managed care organization that is a
190	184		recipient of a capitation payment adjustment paid using money
191	185		appropriated under this section was also a recipient of one or more
192	186		other Medicaid capitation payment adjustments paid during the state
193	187		fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, or August 31, 2015, and the
194	188		aggregate cost to this state of the other Medicaid capitation
195	189		payment adjustments paid during those bienniums.]
196	190		SECTION 14. The following provisions are repealed:
197	191		(1) Section 61.506(g), Education Code;
198	192		(2) Sections 402.032(g) and 2206.101(d), Government
199	193		Code;
200	194		(3) Section 361.0215(d), Health and Safety Code;
201	195		(4) Section 22.0252(b), Human Resources Code; and
202	196		(5) Section 26.3574(x), Water Code.
203	197		SECTION 15. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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