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Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2000 : a report to the House of Representatives, 77th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Americans with Disabilities Act | Bankruptcy | Community care | Disability benefits | Food stamps | Human Services, Texas Department of | Liability insurance | Long-term care | Medicaid | Medicaid eligibility | Medical liability insurance | Medical reimbursements | Medicare | Nursing homes | Persons with disabilities | Services for persons with disabilities | Welfare | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 h88
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [98 pages  File size: 765 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study issues created by the transition of the TANF program to federal law when the state's waiver expires in 2002. Include a review of the final TANF regulations and how other states use TANF funds outside the traditional cash assistance program. Consider policies to improve outcomes for people leaving welfare.
2.	Study issues surrounding the financial difficulties experienced by some nursing home companies, including the reasons for bankruptcies and closures, state policies and resources for dealing with them, and impacts on residents.
3.	Assess the state's responsibilities and policies regarding supports for individuals with disabilities in community-based settings.
4.	Study the current public assistance eligibility, application and review processes, and other Department of Human Services' client communications to ensure that clients are getting the supports necessary to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
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]
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Community care | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Medicaid | Nursing homes | Persons with disabilities | Quality of care | Senior citizens | Services for persons with disabilities | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 h88
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [106 pages  File size: 5,114 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor the implementation of HB 1836, 74th R.S., passed by the 74th Legislature.
2.	Study long-term care for Texans, including possible managed care approaches involving community-based providers, the efficient use and geographic distribution of Medicaid facilities, the effects of the revised enforcement rules for Medicaid facilities, issues related to management contracts and services relating to abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly.
Committee:	Joint Future of Long Term Health Care, Special Task Force
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report to the 71st Legislature / the Special Task Force on the Future of Long Term Health Care.
Subjects:	Assisted living facilities | Community care | Health, Texas Department of | Home health care services | Human Services, Texas Department of | Long-term care | Medicaid | Medical reimbursements | Nursing homes | Nursing shortages | Quality of care | Senior citizens | Services for persons with disabilities |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 l859
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [99 pages  File size: 3,408 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the current and future status of long term health care in Texas and to analyze all current laws and regulations that affect long term health care, with the goal of providing quality care for residents in the most efficient manner. The study should include: (1) a cost-efficient, simple and completely integrated regulatory system between the Texas Department of Health and the Texas Department of Human Services; (2) a regulatory system that focuses on enhancing quality care through an incentive program with sanctions and penalties carefully defined; (3) a long-term care reimbursement process designed to foster cost containment, good patient access and quality of care; and (4) defining and streamlining the certification process, as well as Medicaid eligibility.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Joint Future of Long Term Health Care, Special Task Force
Title:	HCR 213, 70th Leg.
Library Call Number:	HCR 213, 70th Leg.
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View document [2 pages  File size: 181 kb]
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Health Services
Title:	Interim report - Intermediate care facilities
Library Catalog Title:	Interim study on ICF-MR (Intermediate Care Facilities - Mental Retardation) : findings and recommendations.
Subjects:	Community care | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Mental health services | Mentally disabled persons | Services for persons with disabilities |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 h349s
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [103 pages  File size: 4,219 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor the development of the joint long-range plan for services to persons with developmental disabilities; identify problems relating to the ICF-MR (Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded) survey process, reimbursement rates, availability of services, and the effects of the prospective payment program; examine the feasibility of consolidating publicly funded health care services for children; and determine the needs of medically fragile, chronically ill children and their families.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Health Services
Title:	SR 127, 70th Leg., 2nd C.S.
Library Call Number:	SR 127
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View document [3 pages  File size: 688 kb]
Committee:	House Retirement and Aging
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	To the Speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature ; interim report / of the House Committee on Retirement and Aging.
Subjects:	Community care | Long-term care | Medicaid | Nursing homes | Senior citizens |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 r314
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [42 pages  File size: 1,382 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study alternative care services for the elderly, the scope of these services, and their cost effectiveness.
2.	To determine whether or not there is a need to restore the Intermediate Care Facility II nursing care program to a full or modified degree.
3.	To study the health care status of persons who have been denied entry into a long-term care facility and whether or not the screening process is comprehensive and equitable.

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