Enrolled Bill Summary

            Previously, the Family Code required certain agencies to adopt a memorandum of understanding to coordinate local service delivery for children and youth with problems that require services from more than one agency. Senate Bill 1468 replaces this provision with a new section in the Government Code that expands the requirement to include adults needing multiagency services. The bill requires each health and human services agency, the Texas Council on Offenders with Mental Impairments, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Workforce Commission, and the Texas Youth Commission to adopt a joint memorandum of understanding to promote a system of local-level interagency staffing groups to coordinate services for persons needing multiagency services and sets forth issues that the memorandum must address.