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Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim Report - Joint with Committee on State Affairs
Library Catalog Title:	Joint interim report to the 80th Legislature
Subjects:	Competency to stand trial | Criminally insane | End of life issues | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Medicaid | Medical savings accounts | Mental health services | Mentally ill inmates | Prescription drug costs | Prescription drugs | Reverse mortgages | State hospitals |
Library Call Number:	L1836.79 H349sa
Session:	79th R.S. (2005)
Online version:	View report [82 pages  File size: 3,061 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Examine and make recommendations, if necessary, regarding the state's role in regulating pharmacy benefit managers in the interest of consumer protection. Examine alternative methods of dispensing maintenance drugs, including mail service and retail pharmacies, and provide an analysis of the state's role in protecting consumers. Joint Charge with State Affairs Committee.
2.	Study how to reduce dependence on Medicaid for the provision of long term care by increasing use of long-term care insurance and health savings accounts. Include a study of options for increasing the use of advance planning tools, such as health care power of attorney and living wills, to ensure more effective decision-making regarding critical end-of-life and other health care decisions. Finally, study the feasibility of implementing innovative models of nursing facility services that encourage autonomy, choice and dignity of residents. Joint Charge with State Affairs Committee.
3.	Study the current laws/policies relating to forensic patients in our State Hospitals and Community Mental Health Organizations. Include analysis of and recommendations relating to pre- and post-trial forensic patients, competency laws and procedures, current treatment policies and guidelines, cost and placement considerations for creating specialty units for forensic patients, judicial discretion and medical best practices. Joint Charge with State Affairs Committee.
Committee:	Senate State Affairs
Title:	Interim Report - Joint with Committee on Health and Human Services
Library Catalog Title:	Joint interim report to the 80th Legislature
Subjects:	Competency to stand trial | Criminally insane | End of life issues | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Medicaid | Mental health services | Mentally ill inmates | Nursing homes | Prescription drug costs | State hospitals |
Library Call Number:	L1836.79 H349sa
Session:	79th R.S. (2005)
Online version:	View report [82 pages  File size: 3,061 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Examine and make recommendations, if necessary, regarding the state's role in regulating pharmacy benefit managers in the interest of consumer protection. Examine alternative methods of dispensing maintenance drugs, including mail service and retail pharmacies, and provide an analysis of the state's role in protecting consumers. Joint Charge with Health and Human Services Committee
2.	Study how to reduce dependence on Medicaid for the provision of long term care by increasing use of long-term care insurance and health savings accounts. Include a study of options for increasing the use of advance planning tools, such as health care power of attorney and living wills, to ensure more effective decision-making regarding critical end-of-life and other health care decisions. Finally, study the feasibility of implementing innovative models of nursing facility services that encourage autonomy, choice and dignity of residents. Joint Charge with Health and Human Services Committee.
3.	Study the current laws/policies relating to forensic patients in our State Hospitals and Community Mental Health Organizations. Include analysis of and recommendations relating to pre- and post-trial forensic patients, competency laws and procedures, current treatment policies and guidelines, cost and placement considerations for creating specialty units for forensic patients, judicial discretion and medical best practices. Joint Charge with Health and Human Services Committee.
Committee:	Joint Long-Term Care, Legislative Oversight
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report, 2004, 79th Texas Legislature
Subjects:	Liability insurance | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Medical liability insurance | Nursing homes | Quality of care | Senior citizens | STAR+PLUS program | Tort reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 L854r
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [123 pages  File size: 3,823 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	The committee examined the pressing issues related to long-term care, including quality of care, quality assurance, Medicaid reimbursement rates, liability insurance, the effects of tort reform, and possible funding funding methods such as a quality assurance fee and private long-term care insurance. *
Committee:	Joint Long Term Care, Legislative Oversight
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report / Long Term Care Legislative Oversight Committee.
Subjects:	Liability insurance | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Nursing homes |
Library Call Number:	L1836.77 l854r
Session:	77th R.S. (2001)
Online version:	View report [148 pages  File size: 1,938 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor implementation of SB 1839, 77th R.S., SB 415, 77th R.S., HB 154, 77th R.S., and SB 1, 77th R.S., provisions regarding nursing homes, including activities related to quality of care, nursing home regulation, nursing home rate methodologies, liability insurance, and any other relevant issues and legislation.
2.	Make recommendations to the 78th Legislature on any changes needed to improve the quality of nursing home care, assure effective use of public funds for resident care, and improve the affordability of nursing home liability insurance.
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:	Joint Long-Term Care, Legislative Oversight
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Long Term Care Legislative Oversight Committee interim report.
Subjects:	Attorney General of Texas | Human Services, Texas Department of | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | Medicaid | Medical reimbursements | Nursing homes | Quality of care |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 l854r
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [81 pages  File size: 3,789 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Identify significant problems in the nursing facility regulatory system and make recommendations for legislation action.
2.	Analyze and monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of the nursing facility regulatory system of Texas and make recommendations for any necessary research or legislative action.
3.	Review specific recommendations for legislation proposed by the Department of Human Services or the attorney General relating to nursing facility rules and regulations and other long-term care issues.
4.	Analyze the continuum of care of long term services available to Texans and make recommendations for legislative action.
Committee:	House Pensions and Investments
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Pensions and Investments, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Employees Retirement System of Texas | Long-term care | Long-term care insurance | State employees | Stock investments |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 p387
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [54 pages  File size: 2,366 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the laws governing investments and investment practices to identify differences among them. Determine the value, if any, of making the laws more consistent with one another.
2.	Examine the advantages and disadvantages of offering long-term care programs for state employees and teachers. The programs should be financed entirely by members and should create no additional cost to the state or political subdivisions.
3.	Examine the impacts, if any, on the major funds subject to investment restrictions contained in Article IX, section 174 of HB 1, 75th R.S..
4.	Examine the projected funding deficit facing the Employees Retirement System Insurance Program.
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:	House Insurance
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Insurance Committee, Texas House of Representatives, 71st Legislature.
Subjects:	Automobile insurance | Insurance rates | Insurance, Texas State Board of | Long-term care insurance | Title insurance | Uninsured motorists |
Library Call Number:	L1836.71 in7
Session:	71st R.S. (1989)
Online version:	View report [22 pages  File size: 721 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 18.
2.	To study no-fault insurance.
3.	To study financial responsibility laws relative to automobile insurance.
4.	To study Title Insurance regulations and industry practices.
5.	To study gaps in the availability of insurance coverage for long term care for the elderly.
Committee:	House Insurance
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Insurance Committee, Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature.
Subjects:	Business taxes | Health insurance | Health maintenance organizations | Insurance rates | Insurance, Texas State Board of | Long-term care insurance | Medically uninsured | State mandates |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 in7
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [52 pages  File size: 1,307 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 18.
2.	To study the feasibility of long term catastrophic care insurance plans including nursing home care.
3.	To study existing statutes mandating health insurance coverage for certain diseases, disabilities and care provided by certain health care professionals, and evaluate the scope of all mandated benefits.
4.	To study the proliferation of self insurance plans and the impact of HB 61, 70th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, on the taxation of such plans.
5.	To study the equity of the current insurance premium tax system and the feasibility of alternatives. (Joint study with Ways and Means Committee).
Committee:	House Retirement and Aging
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report, 70th Legislature / Committee on Retirement and Aging.
Subjects:	Affordable housing | Aging and Disability Services, Texas Department of | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Health insurance | Life insurance | Long-term care insurance | Medicaid | Medical reimbursements | Nursing homes | Nursing shortages | Public retirement systems | Senior citizens | Teacher Retirement System of Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 r314
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [119 pages  File size: 4,409 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study the feasibility and cost of expansion of the shared housing program of the Texas Department of Aging.
2.	Study the televised advertising of health and life insurance plans aimed at the elderly population.
3.	To study the state retirement systems.
4.	To study the current and projected financial condition of the private long-term care industry and examine possible funding alternatives, including the feasibility of tax deductible payments for nursing home care.
5.	To study the costs and benefits of expanding internal administration of real estate investments in comparison to engaging outside real estate advisors by the Teachers Retirement System.

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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