82R1647 EES-D

By: Nelson S.B. No. 71

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to certain reports submitted by health and human services agencies.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 531.1235(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The advisory board shall prepare a biennial [an annual] report with respect to the recommendations of the advisory board under Subsection (a). The advisory board shall file the report with the commission, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives not later than December 15 of each even-numbered year.

SECTION 2. Section 531.124(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The advisory board shall biennially [annually] review and comment on the minimum standards adopted under Section 111.041 and the plan implemented under Subsection (a) and shall include its conclusions in the report submitted under Section 531.1235.

SECTION 3. Section 22.005(d), Human Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d) With the approval of the comptroller, the department shall establish an internal accounting system, and the department's expenditures shall be allocated to the various funds according to the system. [At the end of each fiscal biennium the department shall report to the comptroller the amount of the unencumbered balances in each of the department's operating funds that belongs to the children's assistance fund and the medical assistance fund, and those unencumbered balances shall be returned to the appropriate special fund.]

SECTION 4. Section 131.005, Human Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 131.005. REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEM. Each health and human services agency that provides, purchases, or otherwise funds transportation services for clients shall:

(1) comply with the standardized system of reporting and accounting established by the office under Section 131.003(a)(3); and

(2) make any changes to agency data collection systems that are necessary to enable the agency to comply with the standardized system[; and

[(3) not later than August 31 of each year, submit to the office a report relating to transportation services that complies with the standardized system].

SECTION 5. Section 131.006, Human Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 131.006. IMPLEMENTATION OF STATEWIDE COORDINATION PLAN. In order to implement the statewide coordination plan created by the office under Section 131.003(a)(2), the office shall:

(1) review rules, policies, contracts, grants, and funding mechanisms relating to transportation services of each health and human services agency that provides, purchases, or otherwise funds transportation services for clients to determine whether the rules, policies, contracts, grants, and funding mechanisms are consistent with the plan; and

(2) make recommendations for revisions to rules, policies, contracts, grants, and funding mechanisms determined under Subdivision (1) to be inconsistent with the plan[; and

[(3) not later than September 30 of each even-numbered year, submit a report by electronic mail and by hand delivery to the governor, the secretary of state, the Legislative Budget Board, and the commissioner relating to the results of the review conducted by the office under this section].

SECTION 6. (a) Sections 531.0243, 531.029, 531.0311, 531.603, 752.005, and 752.006, Government Code, are repealed.

(b) Subchapter G, Chapter 531, Government Code, is repealed.

SECTION 7. Sections 533.049(b), 533.050(b), and 1001.031, Health and Safety Code, are repealed.

SECTION 8. Sections 22.0255(c), 31.0325(d), 117.031, and 161.031, Human Resources Code, are repealed.

SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.