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Senate Bill 49 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
House Sponsor: Burkett |
Senate Bill 49 amends the Government Code to require a health and human services agency, for purposes of determining the appropriateness of transfers of a person with a disability from an institution to an appropriate setting in the community and developing required strategies to prevent the unnecessary placement in an institution of certain at-risk persons with disabilities, to presume the eligibility of a child residing in a general residential operation for transfer to an appropriate community-based setting. The bill includes a general residential operation in the definition of "institutional housing" for purposes of the voucher program for transitional living assistance for persons with disabilities.