Amend HB 2490 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 265.101, Family Code, is amended by amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivisions (1-a) and (1-b) to read as follows:
(1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services Commission.
(1-a) "Competitive grant program" means the nurse-family partnership competitive grant program established under this subchapter.
(1-b) "Health and human services agencies" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.001, Government Code.
SECTION ____. Subchapter C, Chapter 265, Family Code, is amended by adding Section 265.1025 to read as follows:
Sec. 265.1025. COORDINATION BETWEEN AGENCIES AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. The department shall coordinate with the commission to promote the referral to a partnership program of pregnant women receiving services through a public benefits program administered by the commission or a health and human services agency. The coordination may include encouraging and supporting agreements between local organizations providing services to pregnant women.
SECTION ____. Section 265.154(b), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) A report submitted under this section must include:
(1) a description of the parenting education programs implemented and of the models associated with the programs;
(2) information on the families served by the programs, including the number of families served and their demographic information;
(3) the goals and achieved outcomes of the programs;
(4) information on the cost for each family served, including any available third-party return-on-investment analysis; [and]
(5) information explaining the percentage of money spent on evidence-based programs and on promising practice programs; and
(6) the sources from which pregnant women were referred in the preceding two-year period to a nurse-family partnership program under Subchapter C.
SECTION ____. If before implementing any provision of this Act a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the waiver or authorization is granted.