Sec. 531.0235. BIENNIAL DISABILITY REPORTS. (a) The executive commissioner shall direct and require the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities and the Office for the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities to prepare a joint biennial report on the state of services to persons with disabilities in this state. The Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities will serve as the lead agency in convening working meetings and in coordinating and completing the report. Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the agencies shall submit the report to the executive commissioner, governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives.
(b) The report will include recommendations addressing the following:
(1) fiscal and program barriers to consumer-friendly services;
(2) progress toward a service delivery system individualized to each consumer based on functional needs;
(3) progress on the development of local cross-disability access structures;
(4) projections of future long-term care services needs and availability; and
(5) consumer satisfaction, consumer preferences, and desired outcomes.
(c) The commission and other health and human services agencies shall cooperate with the agencies required to prepare the report under Subsection (a).
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1505, Sec. 1.19, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 2.045, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 837 (S.B. 200), Sec. 1.23(a)(1), eff. September 1, 2016.
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