Bill Text: TX SB1790 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to peer specialists and the provision of peer services to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-09 - Left pending in committee [SB1790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1790-Introduced.html
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By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1790 |
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relating to peer specialists and the provision of peer services to | ||
individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 531.0999(a) and (b), Government Code, | ||
as added by Chapter 1015 (H.B. 1486), Acts of the 85th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2017, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) With input from mental health, intellectual or | ||
developmental disability, and substance use peer specialists and | ||
the work group described by Subsection (b), the commission shall | ||
develop and the executive commissioner shall adopt: | ||
(1) rules that establish training requirements for | ||
peer specialists so that they are able to provide services to | ||
persons with a mental illness or intellectual or developmental | ||
disability or services to persons with substance use conditions; | ||
(2) rules that establish certification and | ||
supervision requirements for peer specialists; | ||
(3) rules that define the scope of services that peer | ||
specialists may provide; | ||
(4) rules that distinguish peer services from other | ||
services that a person must hold a license to provide; and | ||
(5) any other rules necessary to protect the health | ||
and safety of persons receiving peer services. | ||
(b) The commission shall establish a stakeholder work group | ||
to provide input for the adoption of rules under Subsection | ||
(a). The work group is composed of the following stakeholders | ||
appointed by the executive commissioner: | ||
(1) one representative of each organization that | ||
certifies mental health, intellectual or developmental disability, | ||
and substance use peer specialists in this state; | ||
(2) three representatives of organizations that | ||
employ mental health, intellectual or developmental disability, | ||
and substance use peer specialists; | ||
(3) one mental health peer specialist who works in an | ||
urban area; | ||
(4) one mental health peer specialist who works in a | ||
rural area; | ||
(5) one intellectual or developmental disability peer | ||
specialist who works in an urban area; | ||
(6) one intellectual or developmental disability peer | ||
specialist who works in a rural area; | ||
(7) one substance use peer specialist who works in an | ||
urban area; | ||
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in a rural area; | ||
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specialists; | ||
(10) one person who trains intellectual or | ||
developmental disability peer specialists; | ||
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specialists; | ||
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addiction licensed health care professional groups who supervise | ||
mental health, intellectual or developmental disability, and | ||
substance use peer specialists; | ||
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three persons with personal experience recovering from mental | ||
illness, substance use conditions, or co-occurring mental illness | ||
and substance use conditions or with personal experience living | ||
with an intellectual or developmental disability; and | ||
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by the executive commissioner. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the | ||
changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |