By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1870
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Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to eligibility determination and service delivery of
1-2 health and human services.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 9.12(d), Chapter 655, Acts of the 74th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) The [In consultation and coordination with the State
1-7 Council on Competitive Government, the] commission shall make and
1-8 implement recommendations on services or functions of the
1-9 integrated eligibility determination [and service delivery] system
1-10 that could be provided more effectively through the use of
1-11 competitive bidding or by contracting with local governments and
1-12 other appropriate entities. If the commission determines that
1-13 private contracting may be effective, the commission may automate
1-14 the determination of client eligibility by contracting with a
1-15 private firm to design and develop computer hardware and software
1-16 for and provide technical support related to the integrated
1-17 eligibility determination system [conduct application processing].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.