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Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 546.0058. Transfer of Money for Community-Based Services

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The commission shall quantify the amount of money the legislature appropriates that would have been spent during the remainder of a state fiscal biennium to care for an individual who resides in a nursing facility but who is leaving that facility before the end of the biennium to reside in the community with the assistance of community-based services.

(b) Notwithstanding any other state law and to the maximum extent allowed by federal law, the executive commissioner shall direct, as appropriate:

(1) the comptroller, at the time an individual described by Subsection (a) leaves a nursing facility, to transfer an amount not to exceed the amount quantified under that subsection among the health and human services agencies and the commission as necessary to comply with this section; or

(2) the commission or a health and human services agency, at the time an individual described by Subsection (a) leaves a nursing facility, to transfer an amount not to exceed the amount quantified under that subsection within the agency's budget as necessary to comply with this section.

(c) The commission shall ensure that the amount transferred under this section is redirected by the commission or a health and human services agency, as applicable, to one or more community-based programs in the amount necessary to provide community-based services to the individual after the individual leaves a nursing facility. (Gov. Code, Sec. 531.092.)

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