88R13490 KKR-F
By: Sparks S.B. No. 2489
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing prevocational services under certain
Medicaid waiver programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
is amended by adding Section 32.0755 to read as follows:
Sec. 32.0755. PREVOCATIONAL SERVICES UNDER CERTAIN WAIVER
PROGRAMS. (a) In this section, "prevocational services" means
services that are designed to prepare an individual for paid or
unpaid work and achieve a generalized result rather than being
job-task oriented.
(b) Prevocational services provided under the community
living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver program or
another medical assistance waiver program providing long-term
services or supports to a medical assistance recipient must be
designed to assist the recipient in achieving permanent integrated
employment receiving compensation at or above the minimum wage in
the recipient's community and in accordance with state and federal
law.
(c) For purposes of determining a recipient's eligibility
for individualized skills and socialization services under a
medical assistance program providing long-term services or
supports to recipients under the medical assistance program,
habilitation services include prevocational services.
SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
waiver or authorization is granted.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.