1-1  By:  Hilderbran (Senate Sponsor - Turner)             H.B. No. 2660
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
    1-3  May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 25, 1995, reported adversely, with
    1-5  favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays
    1-6  0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2660                   By:  Madla
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to area agencies on aging and the coordination of their
   1-11  planning and services within health and human services regions.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  SHORT TITLE.  This Act may be cited as the Older
   1-14  Texans' Regional Coordination Act.
   1-15        SECTION 2. Subchapter B,  Chapter 101, Human Resources Code,
   1-16  is amended by adding Section 101.032 to read as follows:
   1-17        Sec. 101.032.  AREA AGENCIES ON AGING.
   1-18        (a)  Locally-developed area plans and data regarding services
   1-19  to the elderly shall be aggregated and submitted to the department
   1-20  by area agencies on aging according to the state's health and human
   1-21  service regions established under Article 4413 (502), Revised
   1-22  Statutes, and shall be incorporated into the department's strategic
   1-23  plan.  The department by rule may establish the form in which the
   1-24  data must be submitted as well as the process to select which area
   1-25  agency on aging in each region submits the aggregated plans and
   1-26  data.
   1-27        (b)  Unless otherwise authorized by the Commissioner of
   1-28  Health and Human Services and approved by the legislature or the
   1-29  Legislative Budget Board, the department shall decentralize its
   1-30  services through area agencies on aging designated by the
   1-31  department as of January 1, 1995, pursuant to the federal Older
   1-32  Americans Act and shall maintain the boundaries of such agencies
   1-33  consistent with the planning areas, or subdivisions thereof,
   1-34  established pursuant to Chapter 391, Local Government Code.
   1-35        (c)  Area agencies on aging within a health and human
   1-36  services region are jointly responsible for the coordination of the
   1-37  department's decentralized services within that region.
   1-38        SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
   1-39  condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
   1-40  an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
   1-41  requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
   1-42  suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
   1-43  take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
   1-44  so enacted.
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