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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION |
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Subtitle D. PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION ACT |
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Chapter 591. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
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Subchapter B. DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT |
Sec. 591.013. LONG-RANGE PLAN
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(a) The department and the Texas Department of Human Services shall jointly develop a long-range plan for services to persons with developmental disabilities, including mental retardation.
(b) The commissioner of each department shall appoint the necessary staff to develop the plan through research of appropriate topics and public hearings to obtain testimony from persons with knowledge of or interest in state services to persons with developmental disabilities, including mental retardation.
(c) In developing the plan, the department shall consider existing plans or studies made by the departments.
(d) The plan must address at least the following topics:
(1) the needs of persons with developmental disabilities, including mental retardation;
(2) how state services should be structured to meet those needs;
(3) how the ICF-MR program, the waiver program under Section 1915(c), federal Social Security Act, other programs under Title XIX, federal Social Security Act, and other federally funded programs can best be structured and financed to assist the state in delivering services to persons with developmental disabilities, including mental retardation;
(4) the statutory limits and rule or policy changes necessary to ensure the controlled growth of the programs under Title XIX, federal Social Security Act and other federally funded programs;
(5) methods for expanding services available through the ICF-MR program to persons with related conditions as defined by federal regulations relating to the medical assistance program; and
(6) the cost of implementing the plan.
(e) The departments shall, if necessary, modify their respective long-range plans and other existing plans relating to the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities, including mental retardation, to incorporate the provisions of the joint plan.
(f) The departments shall review and revise the plan biennially. Each department shall consider the most recent revision of the plan in any modifications of that department's long-range plans and in each future budget request.
(g) This section does not affect the authority of the department and the Texas Department of Human Services to carry out their separate functions as established by state and federal law.
(h) In this section, "ICF-MR program" means the medical assistance program serving persons with mental retardation who receive care in intermediate care facilities.