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Floor Packet Page No. 179                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 1, at page II-55 (Health and Human Services 
Commission), by adding a new rider to read as follows:
	"        .  The Health and Human Services Commission shall 
establish a work group comprised of providers, advocates, 
appropriate agency staff, and other persons or entities deemed by 
the Commissioner to be necessary to accomplish this charge. to:
	a)  Evaluate its current regulatory and administrative 
functions, and those of the agencies under its jurisdiction, 
relating to the provision of mental retardation services, and 
recommend ways to eliminate duplicative functions, while 
maintaining services and ensuring ongoing agency accountability;
	b)  Review its current statutory authority and rules, 
regulations and procedures, and those of the agencies under its 
jurisdiction, relating to the provision of mental retardation 
services, to identify those which exceed federal requirements, add 
no value to current programs, are duplicative, or are overly 
burdensome or costly, for the purpose of achieving an overall 
reduction in paperwork requirements imposed upon persons subject to 
its regulation of at least 10% by September 1, 2005, through:
		(1)  revision of its own rules, regulations and 
procedures;          
		(2)  recommendations for revision of rules, regulations 
and procedures of those agencies under its jurisdiction; and
		(3)  and recommendations for statutory changes by the 
legislature.   
	c)  The Commission shall report its findings, actions and 
recommendations to implement this directive to the Legislative 
Budget Board, the Senate Finance Committee, the House 
Appropriations Committee and the Governor's Budget Office not later 
than October 1, 2004."