| TO: | Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services |
| FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB78 by Nelson (Relating to adverse licensing, listing, or registration decisions by certain health and human services agencies.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend Government Code as it relates to adverse licensing, listing, or registration decisions by certain Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies. Passage of the bill would require each HHS agency that regulates persons in certain facilities to maintain a record for ten years and share monthly reports with other HHS agencies of each license application that is denied, revoked, suspended, or terminated by the agency.
The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), the Department of Family and Protective Services, the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, and the Department of State Health Services indicate they could implement changes prescribed by the bill within existing resources.
Not later than March 1, 2012, the executive commisoner of HHSC shall adopt rules necessary to implement the provisions of the bill.
The effective date of the bill is September 1, 2011.
| Source Agencies: | 529 Health and Human Services Commission, 530 Family and Protective Services, Department of, 538 Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Department of, 539 Aging and Disability Services, Department of, 537 State Health Services, Department of
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CL, MB, NB, VJC, RC
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