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Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 591.013. Long-Range Plan

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

(a) The commission shall develop a long-range plan for services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

(b) The executive commissioner shall appoint the necessary staff to develop the plan through research of appropriate topics and public hearings to obtain testimony from persons with knowledge of or interest in state services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

(c) In developing the plan, the commission shall consider existing plans or studies made by the commission or department.

(d) The plan must address at least the following topics:

(1) the needs of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities;

(2) how state services should be structured to meet those needs;

(3) how the ICF-IID program, the waiver program under Section 1915(c), federal Social Security Act,  1 other programs under Title XIX, federal Social Security Act,  2 and other federally funded programs can best be structured and financed to assist the state in delivering services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities;

(4) the statutory limits and rule or policy changes necessary to ensure the controlled growth of the programs under Title XIX, federal Social Security Act, and other federally funded programs;

(5) methods for expanding services available through the ICF-IID program to persons with related conditions as defined by federal regulations relating to the medical assistance program; and

(6) the cost of implementing the plan.

(e) The commission and the department shall, if necessary, modify their respective long-range plans and other existing plans relating to the provision of services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities to incorporate the provisions of the plan.

(f) The commission shall review and revise the plan biennially. The commission and the department shall consider the most recent revision of the plan in any modifications of the commission's or department's long-range plans and in each future budget request.

(g) This section does not affect the authority of the commission and the department to carry out their separate functions as established by state and federal law.

(h) In this section, “ICF-IID program” means the medical assistance program serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receive care in intermediate care facilities.

1 42 U.S.C.A. § 1396n(c).
2 42 U.S.C.A. § 1396 et seq.
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