Bill Text: TX SB1071 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program to provide home-delivered meals to certain individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1071 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1071-Introduced.html
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By: Watson | S.B. No. 1071 |
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relating to a pilot program to provide home-delivered meals to | ||
certain individuals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 33.037 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.037. HOME-DELIVERED MEALS PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
commission shall develop and implement a pilot program to provide | ||
home-delivered meals to a targeted group of individuals, selected | ||
by the commission, with a medical condition that would improve with | ||
home-delivered meals. | ||
(b) Using existing resources, the commission may spend not | ||
more than $2 million to develop and implement the pilot program. | ||
(c) The commission shall implement the pilot program in one | ||
urban and one rural region of the state, selected by the commission | ||
based on the availability of and need for home-delivered meal | ||
services. Within each region, the commission shall ensure | ||
medically tailored meals are provided to one subset of individuals | ||
and standard meals are provided to the other subset of individuals. | ||
(d) To the extent practicable, the commission shall seek to | ||
contract with an entity that provides additional services along | ||
with home-delivered meal services. | ||
(e) The commission shall operate the pilot program for one | ||
year. | ||
(f) The commission shall track health outcomes of and the | ||
use of health care services by individuals participating in the | ||
pilot program and analyze the data to determine if the pilot program | ||
results in health care savings. The commission shall partner with | ||
an institution of higher education to conduct the analysis under | ||
this subsection. | ||
(g) Not later than October 31, 2020, the commission shall | ||
prepare and submit to the legislature a report describing the | ||
results of the analysis under Subsection (f) and recommendations | ||
regarding the continuation or expansion of the program. | ||
(h) This section expires December 31, 2020. | ||
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, 2019. |