SRC-MWN S.B. 1100 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 1100
By: Moncrief
Education
6/18/2001
Enrolled


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Nursing homes lack programs that develop best-practices based on industry
research and internally developed models of practice across all
disciplines. S.B. 1100 creates two nursing home pilot programs affiliated
with medical schools or nursing schools to focus on the advancement of
quality in long-term care. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 61C, Education Code, by adding Section 61.088, as
follows: 

Sec. 61.088. PILOT CENTERS FOR ADVANCEMENT OF QUALITY IN LONG-TERM CARE.
(a) Requires the governing board of the University of North Texas Health
Science Center at Fort Worth and the governing board of the Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center each to establish at the respective
health science center a pilot center for the advancement of quality in
long-term care for the purpose of identifying, implementing, and evaluating
certain programs. 

  (b) Requires each pilot center to meet certain criteria.

(c) Requires each pilot center to establish a multidisciplinary leadership
team to coordinate the activities across the pilot centers to meet center
criteria. 

SECTION 2. Requires the governing boards establishing pilot centers under
Section 61.088, Education Code, as added by this Act, to provide to the
legislature a joint written report, not later than December 1, 2002, on the
activities conducted by the pilot centers under that section. 

SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.