Texas 2025 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4700 Comm Sub / Bill

Filed 04/28/2025

                    89R24135 AND-F
 By: A. Davis of Dallas H.B. No. 4700
 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4700:
 By:  Hull C.S.H.B. No. 4700




 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the composition and duties of the Health and Human
 Services Commission Executive Council.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 523.0102(a), Government Code, is amended
 to read as follows:
 (a)  The executive council shall seek and receive public
 comment on:
 (1)  rulemaking and rule review activities of the
 commission [proposed rules];
 (2)  advisory committee recommendations;
 (3)  legislative appropriations requests or other
 documents related to the appropriations process;
 (4)  the operation of health and human services
 programs; and
 (5)  other items the executive commissioner determines
 appropriate.
 SECTION 2.  Section 523.0103(a), Government Code, is amended
 to read as follows:
 (a)  The executive council is composed of:
 (1)  the executive commissioner;
 (2)  the director of each division established by the
 executive commissioner [established under former Section
 531.008(c) before the expiration of that subsection on September 1,
 2023];
 (3)  the commissioner of a health and human services
 agency;
 (4)  the commissioner of the Department of Family and
 Protective Services, regardless of whether that agency continues as
 a state agency separate from the commission; and
 (5)  other individuals the executive commissioner
 appoints as the executive commissioner determines necessary.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.