By: Rose H.B. No. 4571
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the statewide intellectual and developmental
  disabilities coordinating council.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subchapter M-2 to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER M-2. STATEWIDE INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL
  DISABILITIES COORDINATING COUNCIL
         Sec. 531.491.  DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "council"
  means the statewide intellectual and developmental disabilities
  coordinating council.
         Sec. 531.492.  PURPOSE. The council is established to
  ensure a strategic statewide approach to intellectual and
  developmental disabilities services.
         Sec. 531.493.  COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL. (a) The council is
  composed of the following members:
               (1)  subject to Subsection (b), one or more
  representatives designated by each of the following entities:
                     (A)  the Department of State Health Services;
                     (B)  the Department of Family and Protective
  Services;
                     (C)  the Texas Workforce Commission;
                     (D)  the Texas Education Agency;
                     (E)  the Texas Center for Disability Studies at
  The University of Texas at Austin;
                     (F)  the Center on Disability and Development at
  Texas A&M University;
                     (G)  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; and
                     (H)  the Commission on Jail Standards; and
               (2)  the following members appointed by the executive
  commissioner:
                     (A)  a representative of a local intellectual and
  developmental disability authority as defined by Section 531.002,
  Health and Safety Code;
                     (B)  a representative of the Governor's Committee
  on People with Disabilities;
                     (C)  a representative of the Texas Council for
  Developmental Disabilities;
                     (D)  a representative of the Arc of Texas;
                     (E)  a representative of a managed care
  organization;
                     (F)  a provider of Medicaid long-term services and
  supports;
                     (G)  a person or family member of an individual
  with an intellectual or developmental disability; 
                     (H)  a representative of the commission's office
  of the ombudsman; 
                     (I)  representatives of the commission, with one
  representative appointed from each division of the commission with
  responsibility for:
                           (i)  Medicaid and the State Children's
  Health Insurance Program services; 
                           (ii)  intellectual and developmental
  disability behavioral health services; 
                           (iii)  health and specialty care system
  employment;
                           (iv)  health, developmental, and
  independence services; and
                           (v)  access and eligibility services; and 
                     (J)  additional members as needed who are
  recognized experts serving individuals with intellectual and
  developmental disabilities or who represent the interests of
  individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall determine the number
  of representatives that each entity may designate under Subsection
  (a)(1) to serve on the council.
         (c)  The council may authorize another state agency or
  institution that provides specific intellectual and developmental
  disabilities services with the use of appropriated money to
  designate a representative to the council.
         (d)  A council member serves at the pleasure of the
  designating entity.
         Sec. 531.494.  PRESIDING OFFICER. The executive
  commissioner shall designate a member of the council to serve as the
  presiding officer.
         Sec. 531.495.  MEETINGS. The council shall meet at least
  once quarterly or more frequently at the call of the presiding
  officer.
         Sec. 531.496.  POWERS AND DUTIES. The council:
               (1)  shall develop and monitor the implementation of a
  five-year statewide intellectual and developmental disabilities
  strategic plan;
               (2)  shall develop a biennial coordinated statewide
  intellectual and developmental disabilities expenditure proposal;
               (3)  shall annually publish an updated inventory of
  state-funded intellectual and developmental disability programs
  and services that includes:
                     (A)  a description of how those programs and
  services further the purpose of the statewide intellectual and
  developmental disabilities strategic plan; and
                     (B)  an estimate of the number of individuals
  waiting for or interested in receiving those programs and services;
  and
               (4)  may facilitate opportunities to increase
  collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal
  and state funds for intellectual and developmental disability
  services in this state.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2021.