House Committee on Human Services - 68th R.S. (1983)

Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives, to the Sixty-ninth legislative session.
Subjects:	Alternative medicine | Blind, Texas Commission for the | Child care | Children with disabilities | Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Texas Commission for the | Dyslexia | Food stamps | Grants | Learning disabilities | Medicaid | Occupational licenses | Persons with disabilities | Welfare |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 h88
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [276 pages  File size: 10,635 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To monitor all activities and have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 15.
2.	To study child-care needs of parents in Texas and to study child-care services in Texas.
3.	To study the duplication and coordination of various grants-in-aid programs by the federal government (categorical and block grants), relating to human services.
4.	To study dyslexia and related learning disabilities.
5.	To review the use of telecommunication devices for the deaf, including their use in state offices and emergency centers and their availability to the general deaf community.
6.	To review services to the deaf in Texas, including the deaf-blind. This study should consider each state agency that offers services to the deaf, including the State Commission for the Deaf, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission and the School for the Deaf. In addition, the study should cover federal, local and private service agencies.
7.	To study the visually-handicapped children's program in the State Commission for the Blind.
8.	To study chelation therapy, acupuncture and the practice of human ecology, in cooperation with the House Committee on Public Health.
9.	To study the need for establishing a licensing requirement and educational standard for radiological technologists.
Supporting documents
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Notices of public hearing and formal meeting
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1801.9 H88 68
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View document [6 pages]

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