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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HUMAN RESOURCES CODE |
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Title 2. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES AND DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTIVE AND REGULATORY SERVICES |
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Subtitle B. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES |
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Chapter 22. GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES |
Sec. 22.010. ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR SERVICES TO AGED AND DISABLED PERSONS
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(a) The Advisory Committee for Services to Aged and Disabled Persons shall examine and review issues related to the delivery of departmental services to disabled persons, including:
(1) the scope and range of services that the department should provide to disabled persons, including the coordination of a continuum of community-based services;
(2) how the department may improve the data and information it collects and maintains relating to services to disabled persons;
(3) how the department may improve the processes used to receive and refer requests for services from disabled persons; and
(4) how the department may improve its organizational structure to administer the delivery of services to disabled persons.
(b) The staff of the department's office responsible for strategic planning shall assist the committee in the examination and review of the issues.
(c) The department shall consider the long-range recommendations of the committee in the department's planning efforts and in the budget requests submitted after the 1990-1991 fiscal biennium.