Bill Text: TX SB1519 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to establishing a council on long-term care facilities and to a dispute resolution process regarding those facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB1519 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1519-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to establishing a council on long-term care facilities and to a dispute resolution process regarding those facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB1519 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1519-Introduced.html
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By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1519 |
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relating to a council on long-term care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0581 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0581. LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES COUNCIL. (a) In | ||
this section: | ||
(1) "Council" means the Long-Term Care Facilities | ||
Council. | ||
(2) "Long-term care facility" means a facility subject | ||
to regulation under Section 32.021(d), Human Resources Code, or | ||
Chapter 242, 247, or 252, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner shall establish a Long-Term | ||
Care Facilities Council as a permanent advisory committee to the | ||
commission. The council is composed of the following members | ||
appointed by the executive commissioner: | ||
(1) two program managers from different service | ||
delivery regions; | ||
(2) one surveyor who has attained at least the level of | ||
investigator IV; | ||
(3) two members of an enforcement team from different | ||
service delivery regions; | ||
(4) three surveyors, each from a different service | ||
delivery region, at least one of whom must have a background in | ||
nursing, at least one of whom must have a background in social work, | ||
and at least one of whom must have a background in the provision of | ||
pharmacy services; | ||
(5) one informal dispute resolution team leader; | ||
(6) one informal dispute resolution reviewer; | ||
(7) one individual with expertise in Medicaid | ||
quality-based payment systems for long-term care facilities; | ||
(8) two owners or regional vice presidents of | ||
operation who oversee multiple long-term care facilities; | ||
(9) two regional quality assurance nurses who oversee | ||
multiple long-term care facilities; | ||
(10) two active long-term care facility | ||
administrators; and | ||
(11) two active long-term care facility directors of | ||
nursing. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall designate a member of | ||
the council to serve as presiding officer. The members of the | ||
council shall elect any other necessary officers. | ||
(d) A member of the council serves at the will of the | ||
executive commissioner. | ||
(e) The council shall meet at the call of the executive | ||
commissioner. | ||
(f) A member of the council is not entitled to reimbursement | ||
of expenses or to compensation for service on the council. | ||
(g) The council may accept gifts and grants from any source | ||
to be used to carry out a function of the council. | ||
(h) The council shall study and make recommendations | ||
regarding a consistent survey and informal dispute resolution | ||
process for long-term care facilities and regarding Medicaid | ||
quality-based payment systems for those facilities. The council | ||
shall: | ||
(1) study and make recommendations regarding best | ||
practices and protocols to make survey, inspection, and informal | ||
dispute resolution processes more efficient and less burdensome on | ||
long-term care facilities; | ||
(2) recommend uniform standards for those processes; | ||
and | ||
(3) study and make recommendations regarding Medicaid | ||
quality-based payment systems for long-term care facilities. | ||
(i) Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the | ||
council shall submit a report on the council's findings and | ||
recommendations to the executive commissioner, the governor, the | ||
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
and the chairs of the appropriate legislative committees. | ||
(j) Chapter 2110 does not apply to the council. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
establish the Long-Term Care Facilities Council and appoint the | ||
council members as required by Section 531.0581, Government Code, | ||
as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |