Texas Human Resources Code Title 7, Chapter 117 - Department Of Assistive And Rehabilitative Services

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 117.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Caseworker" means a department employee who manages a client's case under a direct services program and provides direct services to the...
• Texas Section 117.002 - Agency
  The department is an agency of the state. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 1.13, eff. Dec. 29, 2003. Amended by: Acts...

SUBCHAPTER B ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 117.003 - Sunset Provision
  Unless the commission is continued in existence as provided by Chapter 325, Government Code, after the review required by Section 531.004, Government Code, this chapter...
• Texas Section 117.021 - Assistive And Rehabilitative Services Council
  (a) The Assistive and Rehabilitative Services Council is created to assist the commissioner in developing rules and policies for the department. (b) The council is...
• Texas Section 117.022 - Appointments
  (a) Appointments to the council shall be made without regard to the race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin of the appointees. (b)...
• Texas Section 117.023 - Training Program For Council Members
  (a) A person who is appointed as a member of the council may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as a member in attendance at...
• Texas Section 117.024 - Terms
  (a) Council members serve for staggered six-year terms with the terms of three members expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year. (b) A member of...
• Texas Section 117.025 - Vacancy
  The governor by appointment shall fill the unexpired term of a vacancy on the council. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 1.13,...
• Texas Section 117.026 - Presiding Officer; Other Officers; Meetings
  (a) The governor shall designate a member of the council as the presiding officer to serve in that capacity at the pleasure of the governor....
• Texas Section 117.027 - Reimbursement For Expenses
  A council member may not receive compensation for service as a member of the council but is entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses incurred by...
• Texas Section 117.028 - Public Interest Information And Complaints
  (a) The commissioner, with the advice of the council, shall prepare information of public interest describing the functions of the department and the procedures by...
• Texas Section 117.029 - Public Access And Testimony
  (a) The commissioner shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the commissioner and to speak on...
• Texas Section 117.030 - Policymaking And Management Responsibilities
  The commissioner, with the advice of the council and subject to the approval of the executive commissioner, shall develop and the department shall implement policies...
• Texas Section 117.032 - Offices
  The department shall maintain its central office in Austin. The department may maintain offices in other areas of the state as necessary. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 117.033 - Criminal History Record Information
  (a) The department may obtain criminal history record information from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and from the Texas Department of Public Safety if...

SUBCHAPTER C PERSONNEL

• Texas Section 117.034 - Criminal History Record Information: Applicants For Employment
  The executive commissioner by rule shall establish criteria for denying a person's application for employment based on criminal history record information obtained pursuant to Section...
• Texas Section 117.051 - Commissioner
  (a) The executive commissioner shall appoint a commissioner of the department with the approval of the governor. The commissioner is to be selected according to...
• Texas Section 117.052 - Personnel
  (a) The department may employ, compensate, and prescribe the duties of personnel necessary and suitable to administer this chapter. (b) The executive commissioner shall prepare...
• Texas Section 117.053 - Information About Qualifications And Standards Of Conduct
  The commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall provide to department employees, as often as necessary, information regarding the requirements for employment under this chapter or...
• Texas Section 117.054 - Merit Pay
  Subject to rules adopted by the executive commissioner, the commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall develop a system of annual performance evaluations. All merit pay...
• Texas Section 117.055 - Career Ladder
  The commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall develop an intra-agency career ladder program. The program must require intra-agency postings of all nonentry-level positions concurrently with...

SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT

• Texas Section 117.056 - Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
  (a) Subject to rules adopted by the executive commissioner, the commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements...
• Texas Section 117.071 - General Powers And Duties Of Department
  The department is responsible for administering human services programs to provide early childhood intervention services and rehabilitation and related services to persons who are blind,...
• Texas Section 117.0711 - Management And Direction By Executive Commissioner
  The department's powers and duties prescribed by this chapter and other law, including enforcement activities and functions, are subject to the executive commissioner's oversight under...
• Texas Section 117.0712 - Contracting And Auditing Authority; Delegation
  (a) The executive commissioner, as authorized by Section 531.0055, Government Code, may delegate to the department the executive commissioner's authority under that section for contracting...
• Texas Section 117.0713 - Service Delivery By Texas Workforce Commission
  The Texas Workforce Commission has primary responsibility for providing vocational rehabilitation services and other services and programs under Subtitle C, Title 4, Labor Code, notwithstanding...
• Texas Section 117.072 - Information Regarding Complaints
  (a) The department shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the department. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...
• Texas Section 117.073 - Rules
  The executive commissioner may adopt rules reasonably necessary for the department to administer this chapter, consistent with the memorandum of understanding under Section 531.0055(k), Government...
• Texas Section 117.074 - Rates For Medical Services
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt standards governing the determination of rates paid for medical services provided under this chapter. The rules must...
• Texas Section 117.076 - Information Regarding Velocardiofacial Syndrome
  (a) The commission shall ensure that each health and human services agency that provides intervention services to young children is provided with information developed by...
• Texas Section 117.077 - Data Analysis In Family Cost Share Provisions In Early Childhood Intervention Program
  (a) In this section, "cost-effective" means the family cost share revenue generated is greater than total administrative costs. (b) The department shall collect data, including...
• Texas Section 117.078 - Family Cost Share Provision In Early Childhood Intervention Program
  (a) The department shall consider implementing a family cost share provision under which the amount a family pays to participate in the early childhood intervention...
• Texas Section 117.079 - Integration Of Independent Living Services Programs
  (a) Not later than September 1, 2016, the department shall integrate into a single independent living services program the following programs that the department operates...
• Texas Section 117.080 - Provision Of Independent Living Services
  (a) The department shall ensure that all services provided under the independent living services program that the department operates under Title VII of the federal...
• Texas Section 117.081 - Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services Program
  The department shall operate a comprehensive rehabilitation services program to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services to persons with traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries. The executive...

SUBCHAPTER D-1 ADMINISTRATION OF DIRECT SERVICES PROGRAMS IN GENERAL

• Texas Section 117.082 - Children's Autism Program
  The department shall operate a children's autism program to provide services to children with autism spectrum disorders. The executive commissioner shall adopt rules for the...
• Texas Section 117.091 - Direct Services Program Caseworker Guidelines
  (a) The department shall use program data and best practices to establish and maintain guidelines that provide direction for caseworkers' decisions in all of the...
• Texas Section 117.092 - Direct Services Program Case Review System
  (a) The department shall establish and maintain a single, uniform case review system for all direct services programs. (b) The case review system must: (1)...
• Texas Section 117.093 - Direct Services Program Monitoring
  (a) Department personnel not employed to perform functions directly under a direct services program must be designated to monitor those programs from a statewide perspective....

Last modified: September 28, 2016