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8 Document(s) [ Subject: Children's health care ]

Committee:	House Youth Health and Safety, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Child Protective Services | Children's health care | Children's mental health | Coronavirus | Emergency communications | Emergency management | Gun safety | Inmate rehabilitation | Juvenile justice system | Mental health services | School discipline | School safety | Shootings | Youthful offenders |
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Session:	87th R.S. (2021)
Online version:	View report [56 pages  File size: 2,708 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Provide a cross-jurisdictional forum for the examination and consideration of issues that broadly affect the health, safety, and rights of Texas youth.
2.	Improve the ability of federal, state, and local governmental entities to address the needs of Texas youth through, among other things, expanded coordination between all programs and systems that serve youth and their families, including child protective services, mental health services, educational institutions, and the juvenile justice system.
3.	Study the allocation and use of state resources to preventative and rehabilitative services that address the primary challenges facing Texas youth placed in the juvenile justice system, including the redirection of those resources as necessary to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
4.	Study the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health needs of Texas youth and identification of effective treatment strategies.
5.	Study the expansion of prevention efforts and the strengthening of service systems to permit the behavioral health challenges faced by Texas youth to be addressed closer to their homes, including efforts and systems that permit youth to remain in their classrooms and stay out of institutionalized healthcare and juvenile justice systems.
6.	Study programs, services, and governmental action focused on the rehabilitation of youthful offenders, including considerations related to developmental factors that impact a youth's entry into the justice system.
7.	Study the implementation and impact of SB 11, 86th R.S. and any other pertinent laws. Identify additional policies, protocols and strategies that will help create a safer environment in schools and local communities.
8.	Examine strategies to prevent acts of mass violence, including measures to enhance firearm safety in Texas.
9.	Evaluate the preparedness of and coordination between state and local agencies, nongovernmental entities, and law enforcement for the prevention of and response to mass violence, including the content and efficacy of active shooter response training.
10.	Examine the role of online communications in mass violence scenarios and identify technological resources and solutions for detecting, mitigating, and reporting threats.
11.	Study the needs of the state related to mental health professionals, educators, school administrators, and related professionals overseeing youth mental health programs and the delivery of those mental health services.
Committee:	House Public Health
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Public Health, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2004 : a report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature
Subjects:	Children's health care | Diabetes | Fetal rights | Immunizations | Medicaid Vendor Drug Program | Organ and tissue donations | Pregnancy | Prenatal care |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 H349h
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [80 pages  File size: 309 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Examine the demographics and costs of diabetes in Texas. Assess the impact diabetes will have on Texas' population, budget and health care system in the future and recommend appropriate policy changes.
2.	Investigate the practice of allowing corneal tissue to be taken and used for transplantation without prior consent. Recommend appropriate state policy changes.
3.	Collect, review and report on the statistics and statewide impact of drug and alcohol abuse by pregnant women on the unborn.
4.	Review the current operations of the Texas Immunization and Kidney Health Care programs. The review should determine if the operational and administrative changes made to the Medicaid Vendor Drug Program will continue to meet the needs of Texans who do not qualify for Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program or private insurance and recommend any necessary changes.
5.	Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report to the 78th Legislature / Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.
Subjects:	Biological weapons | Child care | Children's health care | Disability benefits | Immunizations | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Mental health services | Mentally disabled persons | Mentally ill persons | Organ and tissue donations | Patient restraints | Public health | Rehabilitation Commission, Texas | Terrorism | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work |
Library Call Number:	L1836.77 h349
Session:	77th R.S. (2001)
Online version:	View report [714 pages  File size: 8,454 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review, evaluate, and make recommendations on the following mental health and mental retardation issues: a. Availability and adequacy of mental health services for children and adolescents and their families, including services funded through the mental health system, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program, and other funding sources the Committee considers relevant. b. Community mental health services delivery structure, including evaluating the efficacy of continuation or expansion of the NorthStar managed care pilot and the role of local community MHMR centers as mental health authorities. c. Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation's allocation formulas for distributing mental health and mental retardation funds to local communities.
2.	Review, evaluate and make recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the state's Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Welfare-to-work, child care and related programs in moving families out of poverty to self-sufficiency, with special focus on expiration of the state's federal waiver in FY 2002. Monitor federal reauthorization activities on these programs.
3.	Review, evaluate and make recommendations to improve Texas' Supplemental Security Income disability determination procedures. The Committee should compare Texas' denial rate with other states' rates, analyze any changes in Texas' rate, and examine the impact of Texas' system on Medicaid coverage for the uninsured.
4.	Evaluate and make recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the state's public health response to bioterrorism.
5.	Make recommendations for improving the state's organ donatation and allocation system.
6.	Study and make recommendations for increasing Texas' rates of immunization against childhood communicable diseases.
7.	Study and make recommendations for improving reporting and training regarding the use of restraints and seclusions in facilities.
Committee:	Senate Children's Health Insurance, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report to the Seventy-Sixth Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Children's health care | Children's health insurance | Children's Health Insurance Program | Dental care | Medically uninsured |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 c438
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [202 pages  File size: 10,520 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the relationship between the provisions of the federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997 relating to children's health insurance and the Texas health care infrastructure. Provide oversight for the efforts of the state health and human services agencies to develop a state children's health insurance program.
2.	Identify potential sources of funding that may be used as state match for federal grant funds through the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Committee:	House Public Health
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Public Health, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Children's health care | Children's health insurance | Long-term care | Medical education | Medically uninsured | Nursing homes | Occupational licenses | Quality of care | Texas Healthy Kids Corporation |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 h349h
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [115 pages  File size: 5,368 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the benefits, costs and possibility of mandating a specific ratio of certified nurse aids to nursing home residents.
2.	Review the ways in which medical schools use funds generated by their family practice programs.
3.	Study whether public protection or public services could be enhanced by the registration or licensing of clinical laboratory scientists.
4.	Study options to improve access to healthcare for children who do not qualify for expanded medicaid eligibility.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Human Resources
Title:	SR 692
Library Call Number:	SR 692
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View document [3 pages  File size: 1,718 kb]
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare
Title:	Interim Report - Health Screenings
Library Catalog Title:	Report on health screening / by the Subcommittee on Public Health, Senate Human Resources Committee.
Subjects:	Children's health care | Medical screening |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 h350s
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [29 pages  File size: 906 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the means of coordinating all health screening programs for children where such screening programs are currently provided by several local and state agencies.
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Health educators in the public schools : interim report of the Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare, Texas Senate, 64th Legislature.
Subjects:	Children's health care | Public health | School-based health clinics |
Library Call Number:	L1836.64 p96h
Session:	64th R.S. (1975)
Online version:	View report [59 pages  File size: 2,057 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study health education in the public school system of Texas.

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