By Hilderbran                                         H.B. No. 2660
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2660:
          By Hilderbran                                     C.S.H.B. No. 2660
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to area agencies on aging and the coordination of their
    1-3  planning and services within their health and human services
    1-4  regions.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Short Title.  This Act may be cited as the Older
    1-7  Texans' Regional Coordination Act.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B.  Chapter 101, Human Resources Code,
    1-9  is amended by adding Section 101.032 to read as follows:
   1-10        Sec. 101.032.  AREA AGENCIES ON AGING.  (a)
   1-11  Locally-developed area plans and data regarding services to the
   1-12  elderly shall be aggregated and submitted to the department by the
   1-13  largest area agencies on aging in each of the state's health and
   1-14  human services regions established under Article 4413(502), Revised
   1-15  Statutes, and shall be incorporated into the department's strategic
   1-16  plan.  The department shall not allocate any additional resources
   1-17  to the area agency on aging to perform this task.  The department
   1-18  by rule shall establish the form in which the data must be
   1-19  submitted.
   1-20        (b)  Unless otherwise authorized by the legislature, the
   1-21  Legislative Budget Board or the commissioner of Health and Human
   1-22  Services, the department shall decentralize its services through
   1-23  area agencies on aging designated by the department as of January
    2-1  1, 1995, pursuant to the federal Older Americans Act and shall
    2-2  maintain the boundaries of such agencies consistent with the
    2-3  planning areas, or subdivisions thereof established pursuant to
    2-4  Chapter 391, Local Government Code.
    2-5        (c)  Area agencies on aging within a health and human
    2-6  services region are jointly responsible for the coordination of
    2-7  their services within that region.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.