Amend CSHB 2641, on page 49, between lines 7 and 8, by
inserting the following:
Sec. 131.008. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. (a) The Health
and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of
Transportation shall enter into a memorandum of understanding
relating to functions performed by each agency that relate to the
duties of the office.
(b) The agencies shall include provisions in the memorandum
of understanding necessary to ensure that the agencies do not have
duplicative authority, responsibilities, or activities in the area
of transportation services for clients of health and human services
agencies. Specifically, the memorandum of understanding must
include the following provisions:
(1) an acknowledgement that the data collection and
analysis activities of the office and the Health and Human Services
Commission are comprehensive in scope, with the goal of developing
a statewide coordination plan for the provision of transportation
services for clients of health and human services agencies;
(2) an acknowledgement that the data collection and
analysis activities of the Texas Department of Transportation are
focused on providing more accurate social service contracting
information to transit providers;
(3) a requirement that the Texas Department of
Transportation collect information about transportation service
funding from local social service providers and make the database
with that information available to the Health and Human Services
Commission; and
(4) a requirement that the Health and Human Services
Commission:
(A) develop standardized reporting methods for
health and human services agencies and social service providers to
use when reporting information about transportation services,
funding, contracting, and all other information needed to develop a
statewide coordination plan for transportation services; and
(B) make the information collected under
Subdivision (A) available to the Texas Department of
Transportation.