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.
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