88R6194 JG-F
 
  By: LaMantia S.B. No. 956
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to repealing the coordinated strategic plan for health
  and human services in this state, including related conforming
  amendments.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 531.024(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The executive commissioner shall:
               (1)  facilitate and enforce coordinated planning and
  delivery of health and human services, including:
                     (A)  [compliance with the coordinated strategic
  plan;
                     [(B)]  co-location of services;
                     (B) [(C)]  integrated intake; and
                     (C) [(D)]  coordinated referral and case
  management;
               (2)  develop with the Department of Information
  Resources automation standards for computer systems to enable
  health and human services agencies, including agencies operating at
  a local level, to share pertinent data;
               (3)  establish and enforce uniform regional boundaries
  for all health and human services agencies;
               (4)  carry out statewide health and human services
  needs surveys and forecasting;
               (5)  perform independent special-outcome evaluations
  of health and human services programs and activities;
               (6)  at the request of a governmental entity that
  coordinates the delivery of health and human services in regions,
  counties, and municipalities of this state [identified under
  Section 531.022(e)], assist the [that] entity in implementing a
  coordinated plan that may include co-location of services,
  integrated intake, and coordinated referral and case management and
  is tailored to the needs and priorities of that entity; and
               (7)  promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all
  Medicaid-funded services.
         SECTION 2.  Section 531.028(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall establish a federal
  money management system to coordinate and monitor the use of
  federal money that is received by health and human services
  agencies to ensure that the money is spent in the most efficient
  manner and shall:
               (1)  establish priorities for use of federal money by
  all health and human services agencies[, in coordination with the
  coordinated strategic plan established under Section 531.022];
               (2)  coordinate and monitor the use of federal money
  for health and human services to ensure that the money is spent in
  the most cost-effective manner throughout the health and human
  services system;
               (3)  review and approve all federal funding plans for
  health and human services in this state;
               (4)  estimate available federal money, including
  earned federal money, and monitor unspent money;
               (5)  ensure that the state meets federal requirements
  relating to receipt of federal money for health and human services,
  including requirements relating to state matching money and
  maintenance of effort;
               (6)  transfer appropriated amounts as described by
  Section 531.0271; and
               (7)  ensure that each governmental entity that
  coordinates the delivery of health and human services in regions,
  counties, and municipalities of this state [identified under
  Section 531.022(e)] has access to complete and timely information
  about all sources of federal money for health and human services
  programs and that technical assistance is available to governmental
  entities seeking grants of federal money to provide health and
  human services.
         SECTION 3.  Section 533.032(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The department shall have a long-range plan relating to
  the provision of services under this title covering at least six
  years that includes at least the provisions required by Section
  [Sections 531.022 and] 531.023, Government Code, and Chapter 2056,
  Government Code.  The plan must cover the provision of services in
  and policies for state-operated institutions and ensure that the
  medical needs of the most medically fragile persons with mental
  illness the department serves are met.
         SECTION 4.  Section 533A.032(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The department shall have a long-range plan relating to
  the provision of services under this title covering at least six
  years that includes at least the provisions required by Section
  [Sections 531.022 and] 531.023, Government Code, and Chapter 2056,
  Government Code.  The plan must cover the provision of services in
  and policies for state-operated institutions and ensure that the
  medical needs of the most medically fragile persons with an
  intellectual disability the department serves are met.
         SECTION 5.  Section 40.051, Human Resources Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 40.051.  STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DEPARTMENT.  The
  department shall develop a departmental strategic plan based on
  [the goals and priorities stated in the commission's coordinated
  strategic plan for health and human services.  The department shall
  also develop its plan based on]:
               (1)  furthering the policy of family preservation;
               (2)  the goal of ending the abuse and neglect of
  children in the conservatorship of the department; and
               (3)  the goal of increasing the capacity and
  availability of foster, relative, and kinship placements in this
  state.
         SECTION 6.  Section 531.022, Government Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.