By Chavez H.B. No. 3322 76R7161 KLA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to explaining services provided by adult day care and 1-3 adult day health care facilities to applicants for those services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 103, Human Resources Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 103.012 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 103.012. EXPLANATION OF AVAILABLE SERVICES. (a) The 1-8 department by rule shall develop and implement a program to train 1-9 department employees whose employment responsibilities include 1-10 explaining services provided by an adult day care facility or an 1-11 adult day health care facility to effectively explain those 1-12 services to an applicant or an applicant's guardian. 1-13 (b) The department shall require a department employee 1-14 described by Subsection (a) to provide proof that the services were 1-15 explained to an applicant or the applicant's guardian. The proof 1-16 must be provided in the manner determined by the department. 1-17 SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2000, the Texas 1-18 Department of Human Services shall develop and implement the 1-19 training program required by Section 103.012, Human Resources Code, 1-20 as added by this Act. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.