| TO: | Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB1586 by Carona (Relating to community-based assisted living services for certain elderly residents. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend Subchapter D, Chapter 161, Human Resources Code, by adding Section 161.074. The section would require the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) to offer an elderly resident, who qualifies for the assisted living conversion grant program under Section 202b, Housing Act of 1959, the opportunity to enroll and be admitted directly to a facility operating under that program and receive program services while living in the resident's existing community.
The DADS assumes that the qualified individuals would be offered existing Community-based Alternatives (CBA) services slots that would have otherwise been offered to individuals on the CBA interest list, thereby creating no new slots, but placing certain elderly individuals residing in these specific Housing and Urban Development converted apartment units ahead of other individuals who may have already been on the interest list for some period of time.
| Source Agencies: | 539 Department of Aging and Disability Services
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CL, KF, ML
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