By Naishtat H.B. No. 1429 74R2335 KLL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to caseload estimates by health and human services 1-3 agencies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 13A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13A. COORDINATION OF CASELOAD ESTIMATES. (a) The 1-8 commission shall coordinate caseload estimates made for programs 1-9 administered by health and human services agencies. 1-10 (b) To implement this section, the commission shall: 1-11 (1) adopt uniform guidelines to be used by health and 1-12 human services agencies in estimating their caseloads, with 1-13 allowances given for those agencies for which exceptions from the 1-14 guidelines may be necessary; 1-15 (2) assemble a single set of economic and demographic 1-16 data and provide that data to each health and human services agency 1-17 to be used in estimating its caseloads; and 1-18 (3) seek advice from health and human services 1-19 agencies, the Legislative Budget Board, the governor's budget 1-20 office, the comptroller, and other relevant agencies as needed to 1-21 coordinate the caseload estimating process. 1-22 (c) The commission shall assemble caseload estimates made by 1-23 health and human services agencies into a coherent, uniform report 1-24 and shall update the report quarterly, with assistance from those 2-1 agencies. The commission shall publish the report and make it 2-2 readily available to state and local agencies and interested 2-3 private organizations. 2-4 (d) In the report prepared under Subsection (c) of this 2-5 section, the commission shall explain the caseload estimates using 2-6 monthly averages, annual unduplicated recipients, annual service 2-7 usage, and other commonly used measures. 2-8 (e) The commission shall attach a copy of the report 2-9 prepared under Subsection (c) of this section to the consolidated 2-10 health and human services budget recommendation submitted to the 2-11 Legislative Budget Board under Section 13 of this article and shall 2-12 also submit the report to the legislature when it convenes in 2-13 regular session. 2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.