Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	By: Cook S.B. No. 2896
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6	6	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	7	AN ACT
8	8	relating to the statewide intellectual and developmental
9	9	disability coordinating council.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
12	12	adding Subchapter M-2 to read as follows:
13	13	SUBCHAPTER M-2. STATEWIDE INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL
14	14	DISABILITY COORDINATING COUNCIL
15	15	Sec. 531.491. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "council"
16	16	means the statewide intellectual and developmental disability
17	17	coordinating council.
18	18	Sec. 531.492. PURPOSE. The council is established to
19	19	ensure this state develops a strategic approach for the provision
20	20	of intellectual and developmental disability services in this
21	21	state.
22	22	Sec. 531.493. COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL. (a) The council is
23	23	composed of the following members:
24	24	(1) subject to Subsection (b), one or more
25	25	representatives designated by each of the following entities:
26	26	(A) the Department of State Health Services;
27	27	(B) the Department of Family and Protective
28	28	Services;
29	29	(C) the Texas Workforce Commission;
30	30	(D) the Texas Education Agency;
31	31	(E) the Texas Center for Disability Studies at
32	32	The University of Texas at Austin;
33	33	(F) the Center on Disability and Development at
34	34	Texas A&M University;
35	35	(G) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; and
36	36	(H) the Commission on Jail Standards; and
37	37	(2) the following members appointed by the executive
38	38	commissioner:
39	39	(A) a representative of a local intellectual and
40	40	developmental disability authority as defined by Section 531.002,
41	41	Health and Safety Code;
42	42	(B) a representative of the Governor's Committee
43	43	on People with Disabilities;
44	44	(C) a representative of the Texas Council for
45	45	Developmental Disabilities;
46	46	(D) a representative of the Arc of Texas;
47	47	(E) a representative of a managed care
48	48	organization;
49	49	(F) a provider of Medicaid long-term services and
50	50	supports;
51	51	(G) a person or family member of an individual
52	52	with an intellectual or developmental disability;
53	53	(H) a representative of the commission's office
54	54	of the ombudsman;
55	55	(I) representatives of the commission, with one
56	56	representative appointed from each division of the commission with
57	57	responsibility for:
58	58	(i) Medicaid and the Children's Health
59	59	Insurance Program services;
60	60	(ii) intellectual and developmental
61	61	disability behavioral health services;
62	62	(iii) health and specialty care system
63	63	employment;
64	64	(iv) health, developmental, and
65	65	independence services; and
66	66	(v) access and eligibility services; and
67	67	(J) any additional members as the executive
68	68	commissioner determines appropriate who are recognized experts
69	69	serving individuals with intellectual and developmental
70	70	disabilities or who represent the interests of individuals with
71	71	intellectual and developmental disabilities.
72	72	(b) The executive commissioner shall determine the number
73	73	of representatives that each entity may designate under Subsection
74	74	(a)(1) to serve on the council.
75	75	(c) The council may authorize another state agency or
76	76	institution that provides specific intellectual and developmental
77	77	disability services with the use of money appropriated by this
78	78	state to designate a representative to the council.
79	79	(d) A council member serves at the pleasure of the
80	80	designating entity.
81	81	Sec. 531.494. PRESIDING OFFICER. The executive
82	82	commissioner shall designate a member of the council to serve as the
83	83	presiding officer.
84	84	Sec. 531.495. MEETINGS. The council shall meet at least
85	85	once quarterly or more frequently at the call of the presiding
86	86	officer.
87	87	Sec. 531.496. DUTIES. The council:
88	88	(1) shall develop and monitor the implementation of a
89	89	five-year statewide intellectual and developmental disability
90	90	strategic plan;
91	91	(2) shall develop a biennial coordinated statewide
92	92	intellectual and developmental disability expenditure proposal;
93	93	(3) shall annually publish an updated inventory of
94	94	state-funded intellectual and developmental disability programs
95	95	and services that includes:
96	96	(A) a description of the manner in which those
97	97	programs and services further the purpose of the statewide
98	98	intellectual and developmental disability strategic plan; and
99	99	(B) an estimate of the number of individuals
100	100	waiting for or interested in receiving those programs and services;
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102	102	(4) may facilitate opportunities to increase
103	103	collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal
104	104	and state funds for intellectual and developmental disability
105	105	services in this state.
106	106	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
107	107	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
108	108	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
109	109	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
110	110	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.