By:  Turner                                           S.B. No. 1580
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to area agencies on aging and the coordination of their
    1-2  planning and services within health and human services regions.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  SHORT TITLE.  This Act may be cited as the Older
    1-5  Texans' Regional Coordination Act.
    1-6        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 101, Human Resources Code
    1-7  is amended by adding Section 101.032 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 101.032.  AREA AGENCIES ON AGING.
    1-9        (a)  Locally-developed plans and data regarding services to
   1-10  the elderly as prepared by area agencies on aging shall be
   1-11  aggregated by the department according to the state's health and
   1-12  human services regions established under Article 4413(502) and
   1-13  incorporated into the department's strategic plan.
   1-14        (b)  The department shall decentralize its services through
   1-15  area agencies on aging designated by the department as of January
   1-16  1, 1995, pursuant to the federal Older Americans Act and shall
   1-17  maintain the boundaries of such agencies consistent with the
   1-18  planning areas, or subdivisions thereof, established pursuant to
   1-19  Chapter 391, Local Government Code.
   1-20        (c)  Area agencies on aging are responsible for the
   1-21  coordination of the department's decentralized services within the
   1-22  health and human services region to which those agencies are
   1-23  assigned.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.