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Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas | Child abuse | Child Protective Services | Computers and government | Contraceptives | Dental Examiners, Texas State Board of | Family planning | Foster care | Healthy Texas Women | Homelessness | Medicaid | Medicaid fraud | Medically uninsured | Mental health services | Mentally ill persons | Office of Inspector General, Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Substance abuse | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Welfare eligibility | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Women's health |
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 H349
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View report [58 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the Department of Family and Protective Services’ efforts to reduce child fatalities. Review the process by which the Department of Family and Protective Services collects and uses data to evaluate agency performance and improve outcomes for children in the Child Protective Services system. Make recommendations to ensure the process effectively uses data to strategically improve caseworker performance, and identify and improve upon deficiencies within the system and improve overall outcomes for children and reduce child fatalities.
2.	Monitor the implementation of programs that were created or expanded by the 83rd Legislature to improve mental health and substance abuse services and assess these efforts' contribution to improved outcomes such as reduced recidivism in state hospitals, diversion from emergency rooms and county jails, and access to permanent supportive housing. Identify and address gaps in the current mental health and substance abuse system and make recommendations to better coordinate services across agencies and programs.
3.	Build on previous legislative achievements in women's healthcare by examining women’s access to preventative health care, pregnancy services, and post-partum care, and exploring ways to expand access and improve quality, particularly in rural and underserved areas of the state. Monitor the implementation of women's health programs in Texas. Assess these programs' impact on outcomes such as improving access to preventative services, reducing unplanned pregnancies, and achieving cost savings. Recommend ways to better coordinate the various programs in a manner that increases the number of women served, ensures adequate provider capacity statewide, and maximizes efficiencies to the state.
4.	Identify cost-effective alternatives to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to better connect low income individuals to health care services through private market-based solutions, including Medicaid block grants and waivers. Recommendations should strive to encourage cost sharing, promote personal responsibility, reduce uncompensated care costs, contain increasing health care costs, improve access to care, address access to emergency department care issues in rural areas, promote the use of existing private coverage or employee sponsored coverage, reduce non-­?emergency use of emergency departments, and reduce the need for federal approval to the state Medicaid plan.
5.	Evaluate the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program structure. Make recommendations to improve the program's operations and ensure the program achieves outcomes that allow TANF recipients to find employment and achieve self-sufficiency. Recommendations should seek to ensure Texas is using the most effective work-related requirements and drug testing protocols.
6.	Evaluate the current state of prescription drug abuse and strategies for reducing prescription drug abuse in Texas. Make recommendations on how these policies can be improved or modified to enhance the State of Texas’ handling of services, treatments and education related to prescription drug abuse and to reduce the overall prevalence of prescription drug abuse.
7.	Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation, including but not limited to: Monitor implementation of initiatives aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of Medicaid long-term care services and supports, including the redesign of services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Monitor implementation of initiatives aimed at reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in Texas Medicaid and other health and human services programs. Dental Board Reforms: Monitor implementation of initiatives aimed at improving the State Board of Dental Examiners' ability to protect public safety, including strengthening the Board's authority and enforcement powers, improving the complaint review and resolution processes, and increasing staffing to improve the Board's ability to respond to complaints and potential fraudulent activity. Determine whether there are additional changes necessary to ensure that the Board is able to regulate the practice of dentistry and ensure public safety. Cancer Prevention and Research Institute: Monitor implementation of initiatives aimed at restructuring the governance structure, eliminating conflicts of interest, and increasing transparency at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives report, 2004 : interim report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature
Subjects:	Child abuse | Child Protective Services | Elder abuse | Marriage | Services for persons with disabilities | Welfare | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 H88
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [195 pages  File size: 2,572 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the incident of abuse and neglect of individuals receiving services in community care settings. The committee will evaluate the effectiveness of procedures to prevent abuse and neglect, methods to streamline reporting and investigations and the adequacy of available enforcement mechanisms.
2.	Assess the effectiveness of new marriage promotion initiatives in the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) program.
3.	Monitor congressional re-authorization of TANF and child care programs and the impact of federal policy changes on Texas' welfare reform efforts. Report any needed policy changes to accommodate new federal policy for the 79th Legislature.
4.	Monitor the implementation of SB 669, 78th R.S., which mandates police presence with Child Protective Services workers during priority calls. The study should include, at minimum, the impact on victims, parent cooperation and local law enforcement availability.
5.	Monitor agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdictions.
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:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Americans with Disabilities Act | Child care | Disability benefits | Food stamps | Human Services, Texas Department of | Mental health services | Rehabilitation Commission, Texas | Services for persons with disabilities | Social Security | Suicide | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work |
Library Call Number:	L1836.77 h88
Session:	77th R.S. (2001)
Online version:	View report [148 pages  File size: 2,381 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, the Food Stamp program, and the Child Care Development Fund Block Grant.
2.	Consider ways the state and local governments can promote asset development in low-income households and facilitate increased independence from public assistance. Examine any difficulties public assistance clients may encounter because of asset test standards.
3.	Review the organization and administration of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, including but not limited to eligibility determinations for social security disability benefits.
4.	Study the extent and causes of suicide and consider whether Texas should implement a suicide prevention program.
5.	Evaluate the adequacy of staffing levels at the Department of Human Services. Examine staff workloads and responsibilities in light of new and altered responsibilities at the department, including implementation of CHIP, eligibility policy changes and welfare reform. Explore options that might increase efficiency of staff, including enhanced technology and public-private partnerships for application and recertification of benefits.
6.	Actively monitor agencies and institutions under the committee's oversight jurisdiction, including compliance with legislative direction on "Olmstead" issues.
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 Appropriations
Title:	Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services Subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform joint report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committees on Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services : subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform, Texas House of Representatives joint interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w457
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [84 pages  File size: 5,093 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of state and federal welfare reforms. Conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Workforce Commission, including its organization, rules, plans, and spending. Establish specific goals for welfare reform and assess problems and opportunities for the attainment of these goals. (Joint with the House Committees on Economic Development and Human Services; coordinate with the Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee)
Committee:	House Economic Development
Title:	Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services Subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform joint interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committees on Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services : subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform, Texas House of Representatives joint interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w457
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [84 pages  File size: 5,093 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of state and federal welfare reforms. Conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Workforce Commission, including its organization, rules, plans, and spending. Establish specific goals for welfare reform and assess problems and opportunities for the attainment of those goals. (Joint with House Committees on Appropriations and Human Services; coordinate with the Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee)
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Texas Senate Interim Committee on Health and Human Services interim report.
Subjects:	Immigration | Medicaid fraud | Medical billing | Prompt payment of insurance claims | Rural issues | Rural population | Senior citizens | Tobacco advertising | Tobacco laws and regulations | Tobacco lawsuit | Tobacco settlement receipts | Underage smoking | Welfare | Welfare fraud | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 h349
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [160 pages  File size: 7,598 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor the implementation of SB 30, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding fraud and improper payments under state Medicaid and welfare programs. If needed, make recommendations for further legislative and regulatory action.
2.	Develop a plan for oversight of efforts by state health and human services agencies, the Attorney General, and law enforcement agencies, to detect and reduce fraud and improper payments under state Medicaid and welfare programs. The plan should address enforcement and punishment under state and federal civil and criminal laws.
3.	Continue to monitor federal welfare reform, and make recommendations for necessary legislative or regulatory action.
4.	Study the implementation of SB 55, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding minors' access to tobacco.
5.	Monitor developments in the federal tobacco settlement discussions and identify potential, fiscal impacts to Texas governments.
6.	Examine the demographic trends of the state that will impact the health and human services delivery system in the future, including immigration, rural concerns, and the aging state population. Make recommendations for research and legislative action, if necessary.
7.	Study current practices in patient billing by Texas hospitals and providers of health care to evaluate the accuracy, clarity and timliness of patient billing. The Committee should examine existing regulatory authority and determine whether there is suficient authority to address problems in patient billings. If necessary, the Committee may make recommendations for standardizing patient billing; ensuring that bills are accurate and complete yet simple enough for patients to understand; providing a meaningful appeals process for incorrect or excessive billings; and establishing guidelines for submission of bill for payment within a reasonable time period.
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services Subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform joint interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committees on Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services : subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform, Texas House of Representatives joint interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w457
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [84 pages  File size: 5,093 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of state and federal welfare reforms. Conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Workforce Commission, including its organization, rules, plans, and spending. Establish specific goals for welfare reform and assess problems and opportunities for the attainment of those goals. (Joint with House Committees on Economic Development and Appropriations; coordinate with the Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee)
Committee:	Joint Workforce Development, Legislative Oversight
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee report to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the state of Texas.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Texas Workforce Development Act | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w892
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [87 pages  File size: 7,570 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor workforce development and cooperate with the Texas Workforce Commission in implementing the workforce system in the state. *
Committee:	Senate Finance
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim committee report of the Senate Finance Committee to the 75th Legislature.
Subjects:	Child care | Computer networks | Data management | Federal funds | Federal government | Higher education | Higher education affordability | Information Resources, Texas Department of | Medicaid | State budgets | Telecommunications infrastructure | Tuition | University budgets | University finance | Welfare | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 f49f
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [272 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To evaluate the impact on Texas government finance resulting from proposed changes in federal funding mechanisms and to make recommendations to implement changed funding mechanisms.
2.	To monitor implementation of tuition and student use fee increases, HB 815, 74th R.S. and HB 1792, 74th R.S., by higher education institutions. The Committee shall issue a report identifying the impacts and uses of tuition and student use fee increases.
3.	To evaluate use of emerging telecommunication infrastructure for efficiencies in collection and disbursement of state funds and to evaluate the impact of technology and its effect on the demand for state appropriations.
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim report - Medicaid and welfare reform
Library Catalog Title:	Medicaid and welfare reform : interim report.
Subjects:	Federal funds | Indigent health care | Job training programs | Managed care | Medicaid | Medical savings accounts | Social service agencies | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 h349m
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [350 pages  File size: 15,412 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor the development of federal waivers resulting from Medicaid and welfare reform legislation, SB 10, 74th R.S., and HB 1863, 74th R.S., to be submitted and negotiated with the federal Health Care Finance Administration.
2.	Monitor the implementation of the Medicaid health care delivery system created by SB 10, 74th R.S., to ensure that the phase-in of the program is being carried out in a rapid but thorough manner.
3.	Review and assess Medicaid reform legislation and welfare reform, SB 10, 74th R.S., and HB 1863, 74th R.S., and make recommendations for state legislation, if necessary, regarding modifications needed to ensure a smooth transition to statewide managed health care for indigent patients and enacting the reformed welfare system.
4.	Establish a working group consisiting of Committee members, legislative staff, staff from the State Comptroller's Office, the Legislative Budget Office and other affected state agencies to monitor the activities in Congress regarding block grant funding and the impact these will have on Texas' health and human services related programs. Establish a mechanism for communicating these program impacts to the Congressional delegation.
5.	In the event that Federal block grant legislation is enacted which affects health and human services programs, the working group should evaluate the impact on welfare and Medicaid reform legislation, HB 1863, 74th R.S., and SB 10, 74th R.S., and determine the ability of the state to proceed with enacting both pieces of legislation and evaluate the need to modify either piece of legislation to conform to federal requirements.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim minutes, letters to Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock with enclosures, and charts reflecting legislative recommendations submitted to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1803.9 H88 74
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View document [461 pages  File size: 10,303 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:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1994 : a report to the House of Representatives, 74th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Child support | Poverty | State agency mandated reports | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work |
Library Call Number:	L1836.73 h88
Session:	73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version:	View report [195 pages  File size: 9,908 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including a study of mandated reports to the legislature and legislative agencies. The study should consist of a review of the legislative reporting requirements of all agencies to identify areas where reporting obligations could be streamlined and agency accountability improved. The committee shall make specific recommendations about the continuation, modification or elimination of required legislative reports.
2.	Conduct a comprehensive study of the state's welfare system, with emphasis on possible programs to remove Texans from Aid to Families with Dependent Children through training and employment programs.
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives to the Seventy-first Legislative Session.
Subjects:	Attorney General Child Support Division | Blind, Texas Commission for the | Children with disabilities | Education Agency, Texas | Health, Texas Department of | Human Services, Texas Department of | Job training programs | Medicaid | Medicaid Vendor Drug Program | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Prescription drugs | Rehabilitation Commission, Texas | Residential treatment centers | State agencies | State supported living centers | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Youth Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 h88
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [42 pages  File size: 1,707 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study the efficiency and economy of the regional boundaries of human service agencies. (Joint study with House Committee on Public Health).
2.	To study the feasibility of establishing a co-payment support assistance system based on ability to pay by parents of children in state supported residential care programs.
3.	To study and monitor federal welfare reforms and evaluate the impact of such programs on the state AFDC program and state finances.
4.	To study the Vendor Drug Program in the Department of Human Services.
Committee:	Senate Workfare, Special, Interim
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Final report and recommendations to the 71st Legislature / Special Senate Interim Committee on Workfare.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Poverty | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 w892r
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [37 pages  File size: 2,389 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Conduct a thorough study of the state's AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children] program and other elements of the welfare system in order to determine if it is possible to reduce long-term welfare dependency and its associated costs by encouraging self sufficiency and employment. The committee will study other states' experiences with workfare and other welfare reform programs and assess the implications of proposed changes in federal law. The committee will attempt to determine the need for, and availability of, a variety of support services and programs such as child care, transportation, health insurance, education and job training. Other topics include child support enforcement, benefit levels, pro-family aspects of welfare reform and issues related to child welfare.
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Breaking the poverty cycle in Texas : report / of the Senate Interim Committee on Welfare Reform.
Subjects:	Poverty | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 w457
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Online version:	View report [87 pages  File size: 10,208 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Make a thorough study of possible reforms in the general welfare system in Texas, including both a study of Texas statutes and constitutional provisions relating to public welfare and the administration of these provisions. Direct particular attention towards ascertaining methods of establishing more stringent paternal responsibility in the area of illegitimacy.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	A summary of Breaking the poverty cycle in Texas
Library Catalog Title:	A summary of Breaking the poverty cycle in Texas.
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 w457s
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Online version:	View document [15 pages]
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	Review of the Texas Medicaid program
Library Catalog Title:	Review of the Texas Medicaid program / prepared for the Senate Interim Committee on Welfare Reform.
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 w457r
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	The financial aspects of the Texas Medicaid Program.
Library Catalog Title:	The financial aspects of the Texas Medicaid Program.
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 w457f
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	The Texas Department of Public Welfare
Library Catalog Title:	The Texas Department of Public Welfare : a study / by Electronic Data Systems Corporatio.
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 w457p
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	Remarks to the Legislative Budget Board / Burton G. Hackney.
Library Catalog Title:	Remarks to the Legislative Budget Board / Burton G. Hackney.
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 w457rh
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Committee:	Senate Welfare Reform
Title:	Breaking the poverty cycle in Texas : special studies commissioned by the Senate Interim Committee on Welfare Reform
Library Call Number:	L1836.61 W457ss c.4.pdf
Session:	61st R.S. (1969)
Online version:	View document [166 pages  File size: 4,933 kb]
Committee:	House Tarrant County Relief Situation, Special
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report
Subjects:	Social service agencies | Tarrant County | Welfare | Welfare fraud | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 44th Leg., 1st C.S. 328 (1935)
Session:	44th R.S. (1935)
Online version:	View report [11 pages  File size: 633 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate thoroughly the relief system and set up as administered in Tarrant County.
2.	Such committee shall give its ideas relative to a better functioning of the Relief system in the saving of time, and providing labor, money, relief for the needy, so that errors can be remedied wherever same may be found to exist; and as to any and all things that such committee may think advisable relative to the scope of this investigation; to bring to the attention of the Legislature all needed or suggested reforms or changes in the Relief Law and administration of the same in the State of Texas.

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

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