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| Committee: | Senate Human Services | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Senate Committee on Human Services interim report. | |
| Subjects: | Abortion | Aging and Disability Services, Texas Department of | Americans with Disabilities Act | Children with disabilities | Community care | Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Human Services, Texas Department of | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Medicaid | Nursing homes | Parental notification of abortion | Persons with disabilities | Protective and Regulatory Services, Texas Department of | Senior citizens | Services for persons with disabilities | Supreme Court, U.S. | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.76 h89 | |
| Session: | 76th R.S. (1999) | |
| Online version: | View report [303 pages File size: 882 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine the continuum of care and support options available to Texans in need of long-term care. The Committee shall evaluate the effectiveness of state regulatory efforts to ensure quality services as well as analyze the long-term care business climate. | |
| 2. | Evaluate services provided to hardest-to-serve adult welfare recipients and services provided to children receiving welfare. The Committee shall assess the state's ability to avoid long-term dependency on welfare for both of these populations and develop additional strategies to encourage self-sufficiency and movement from welfare to work. | |
| 3. | Monitor federal developments related to long-term care and welfare issues. In the event that significant developments occur, the Committee shall evaluate their impact on Texas. | |
| 4. | Monitor the implementation of the following bills enacted during the 76th R.S.: SB 30, 76th R.S., relating to parental notification before an abortion may be performed on certain minors; SB 374, 76th R.S., relating to the provision of certain long-term care services, to the continuation and functions of the Texas Department on Aging, and to the eventual consolidation of the Texas Department of Human Services and the Texas Department on Aging into a new agency on aging and disability services; and HB 2641, 76th R.S., relating to the continuation and functions of the Health and Human Services Commission. The Committee shall also monitor the effects of the additional resources provided to the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Senate Human Services | |
| Title: | Interim Committee Rules | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1803.9 H89 76 | |
| Session: | 76th R.S. (1999) | |
| Online version: | View document [5 pages File size: 169 kb] | |
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