Sec. 535.004. PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES

(a) The department shall provide assistance to compensate a client for present and future expenses incurred to maintain in the community a family member with a mental disability or a person with a mental disability who lives independently, including:

(1) the purchase or lease of special equipment or architectural modifications of a home to improve or facilitate the care, treatment, therapy, general living conditions, or access of the person with a mental disability;

(2) medical, surgical, therapeutic, diagnostic, and other health services related to the person's mental disability;

(3) counseling or training programs that assist a family in providing proper care for the family member with a mental disability or assist the person with a mental disability who lives independently, and that provide for the special needs of the family or person;

(4) attendant care, home health aid services, homemaker services, and chore services that provide support with training, routine body functions, dressing, preparation and consumption of food, and ambulation;

(5) respite support for a family that is the client;

(6) transportation services for the person with a mental disability; and

(7) transportation, room, and board costs incurred by the family or the person with a mental disability during evaluation or treatment of the person with a mental disability that have been preapproved by the department.

(b) The department by rule may add services and programs for which the department may provide assistance.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.