1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 966 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 2, 2001; 1-3 April 3, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; April 24, 2001, reported adversely, with 1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1-6 0; April 24, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 966 By: Nelson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to requiring the Health and Human Services Commission to 1-11 study ways to allow appropriated money to follow an individual who 1-12 is leaving institutional care and will need community-based 1-13 services. 1-14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-15 SECTION 1. In this Act, "health and human services agencies" 1-16 has the meaning assigned by Section 531.001, Government Code. 1-17 SECTION 2. The Health and Human Services Commission shall 1-18 study ways in which health and human services agencies may: 1-19 (1) quantify the amount of money appropriated by the 1-20 legislature that is spent to care for a person who is receiving 1-21 institutional care in an institution operated by the state or 1-22 funded at least in part by appropriated money; and 1-23 (2) redirect all or part of that amount to one or more 1-24 community-based programs that will provide community-based services 1-25 to the person in the event the person leaves the institution to 1-26 live in the community. 1-27 SECTION 3. The commission shall consider ways in which the 1-28 money may be redirected under existing law, whether the money could 1-29 be redirected in advisable ways if changes were made in the General 1-30 Appropriations Act, and advisable ways in which the money could be 1-31 redirected that would require changes in general law. 1-32 SECTION 4. At the commission's request, each health and 1-33 human services agency shall provide information to the commission 1-34 and assist the commission in performing the study. 1-35 SECTION 5. Not later than September 1, 2002, the commission 1-36 shall report its conclusions and recommendations to the presiding 1-37 officer of each house of the legislature, to the Senate Finance 1-38 Committee and the House Appropriations Committee, and to each 1-39 standing committee of either house of the legislature that has 1-40 primary jurisdiction over the commission or a health and human 1-41 services agency. 1-42 SECTION 6. This Act expires June 1, 2003. 1-43 SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-44 * * * * *