Bill Text: TX HB4400 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a pilot program to create additional housing for certain individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability through a Medicaid waiver program.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB4400 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4400-Introduced.html
By: J. Johnson of Dallas | H.B. No. 4400 |
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relating to the establishment of a pilot program to create | ||
additional housing for certain individuals with an intellectual or | ||
developmental disability through a Medicaid waiver program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.02441 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.02441. PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall | ||
establish and conduct a pilot program for a period of ten years that | ||
provides funding to a community non-profit corporation to create | ||
additional housing in this state for not less than 100 individuals | ||
with an intellectual or developmental disability through the home | ||
and community-based services (HCS) waiver program. | ||
(b) The community non-profit corporation funded under this | ||
section must: | ||
(1) be in a county with a population between 900,000 | ||
and 1.5 million that is located adjacent to a county with a | ||
population of 2.5 million or more; and | ||
(2) have a history of providing services to not less | ||
than 300 individuals with an intellectual or developmental | ||
disability for a period of not less than 10 years. | ||
(c) In establishing the pilot program, the commission shall | ||
set a goal to reduce the number of individuals residing and | ||
receiving services in state supported living centers, as defined by | ||
Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code, to an extent necessary to | ||
offset the costs of the pilot program. | ||
(d) The commission shall use proceeds from general | ||
obligations bonds issued by the Texas Public Finance Authority to | ||
provide funding for the creation of additional housing under the | ||
pilot program. | ||
(e) The community non-profit corporation that is provided | ||
with funding under the pilot program shall prepare and submit an | ||
annual report to the commission that summarizes the results of the | ||
pilot program. | ||
SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that any other 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. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on January 1, 2020, but | ||
only if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 86th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, authorizing the issuance of | ||
general obligation bonds for conducting a program to create | ||
additional housing for individuals with an intellectual or | ||
developmental disability is approved by the voters. If that | ||
amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. |