Honorable Charles Schwertner, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB2025 by Davis, Yvonne (Relating to the regulation of certain long-term care facilities, including facilities that provide care to persons with Alzheimer ’s disease or related disorders; authorizing an administrative penalty.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend portions of the Health and Safety Code to set the expiration date of licenses issued to certain long-term care facilities to the third anniversary of the date the license was issued, require the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to review and develop efficiencies in the methods used to issue informational materials and other materials to a licensed entity, and would require HHSC to develop and implement a system to track the scope and severity of violations of rules and standards regulating certain long-term care facilities that is comparable to the system used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to categorize the scope and severity of violations for nursing homes. The bill would take effect September 1, 2017.
Based on the LBB's analysis of the Health and Human Services Commission, duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished utilizing existing resources.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies:
529 Health and Human Services Commission, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts