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TX Health & Safety Code § 534.102 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.102. Rules and Standards

Sec. 534.102.  RULES AND STANDARDS.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules, including standards, the executive commissioner considers necessary and appropriate to ensure the adequate provision of community-based intellectual disability services through a local intellectual and developmental disability authority under this subchapter.(b)  The department shall send a copy of the rules to each local intellectual and developmental disability authority or other provider receiving contract funds as a local intellectual and developmental disability authority or designated provider.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 835, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 10A.531, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.103 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.103. Required Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services

Sec. 534.103.  REQUIRED COMMUNITY-BASED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES.  (a)  The department shall ensure that, at a minimum, the following services are available in each service area:(1)  community-based assessments, including diagnosis and evaluation services;(2)  respite care; and(3)  case management services.(b)  The department shall arrange for appropriate community-based services, including the assignment of a case manager, to be available in each service area for each person discharged from a department facility who is in need of care.(c)  To the extent that resources are available, the department shall ensure that the services listed in this section are available for children, including adolescents, as well as adults, in each service area.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 835, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 10A.532, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.104 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.104. Joint Discharge Planning

Sec. 534.104.  JOINT DISCHARGE PLANNING.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall adopt, and the department shall enforce, rules that require continuity of services and planning for client care between department facilities and local intellectual and developmental disability authorities.(b)  At a minimum, the rules must require joint discharge planning between a department facility and a local intellectual and developmental disability authority before a facility discharges a client or places the client on an extended furlough with an intent to discharge.(c)  The local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall plan with the department facility and determine the appropriate community services for the client.(d)  The local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall arrange for the provision of the services if department funds are to be used and may subcontract with or make a referral to a local agency or entity.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 835, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 14.802, eff. Sept. 1, 2001;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 10A.533, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.105 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.105. Designation of Provider

Sec. 534.105.  DESIGNATION OF PROVIDER.  (a)  The department shall identify and contract with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority for each service area to ensure that services are provided to client populations determined by the department.  A local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall ensure that services to address the needs of priority populations are provided as required by the department and shall comply with the rules and standards adopted under Section 534.102.(b)  The department may contract with a local agency or a private provider or organization to act as a designated provider of a service if the department:(1)  cannot negotiate a contract with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to ensure that a specific required service for priority populations is available in that service area; or(2)  determines that a local intellectual and developmental disability authority does not have the capacity to ensure the availability of that service.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 835, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.106 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.106. Contracts for Certain Community Services

Sec. 534.106.  CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall design a competitive procurement or similar system that an intellectual and developmental disability authority shall use in awarding an initial contract for the provision of services at the community level for persons with an intellectual disability, including residential services, if the contract involves the use of state money or money for which the state has oversight responsibility.(b)  The system must require that each local intellectual and developmental disability authority:(1)  ensure public participation in the authority's decisions regarding whether to provide or to contract for a service;(2)  make a reasonable effort to give notice of the intent to contract for services to each potential private provider in the local service area of the authority; and(3)  review each submitted proposal and award the contract to the applicant that the authority determines has made the lowest and best bid to provide the needed services.(c)  Each local intellectual and developmental disability  authority, in determining the lowest and best bid, shall consider any relevant information included in the authority's request for bid proposals, including:(1)  price;(2)  the ability of the bidder to perform the contract and to provide the required services;(3)  whether the bidder can perform the contract or provide the services within the period required, without delay or interference;(4)  the bidder's history of compliance with the laws relating to the bidder's business operations and the affected services and whether the bidder is currently in compliance;(5)  whether the bidder's financial resources are sufficient to perform the contract and to provide the services;(6)  whether necessary or desirable support and ancillary services are available to the bidder;(7)  the character, responsibility, integrity, reputation, and experience of the bidder;(8)  the quality of the facilities and equipment available to or proposed by the bidder;(9)  the ability of the bidder to provide continuity of services; and(10)  the ability of the bidder to meet all applicable written departmental policies, principles, and regulations.|Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1187, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.107 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.107. Coordination of Activities

Sec. 534.107.  COORDINATION OF ACTIVITIES.  A local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall coordinate its activities with the activities of other appropriate agencies that provide care and treatment for persons with drug or alcohol problems.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.1075 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.1075. Respite Care

Sec. 534.1075.  RESPITE CARE.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules relating to the provision of respite care and shall develop a system to reimburse providers of in-home respite care.(b)  The rules must:(1)  encourage the use of existing local providers;(2)  encourage family participation in the choice of a qualified provider;(3)  establish procedures necessary to administer this section, including procedures for:(A)  determining the amount and type of in-home respite care to be authorized;(B)  reimbursing providers;(C)  handling appeals from providers;(D)  handling complaints from recipients of in-home respite care;(E)  providing emergency backup for in-home respite care providers; and(F)  advertising for, selecting, and training in-home respite care providers; and(4)  specify the conditions and provisions under which a provider's participation in the program can be canceled.(c)  The executive commissioner shall establish service and performance standards for department facilities and designated providers to use in operating the in-home respite care program.  The executive commissioner shall establish the standards from information obtained from the families of clients receiving in-home respite care and from providers of in-home respite care.  The executive commissioner may obtain the information at a public hearing or from an advisory group.(d)  The service and performance standards established by the executive commissioner under Subsection (c) must:(1)  prescribe minimum personnel qualifications the executive commissioner determines are necessary to protect health and safety;(2)  establish levels of personnel qualifications that are dependent on the needs of the client; and(3)  permit a health professional with a valid Texas practitioner's license to provide care that is consistent with the professional's training and license without requiring additional training unless the executive commissioner determines that additional training is necessary.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.108 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.108. Standards of Care

Sec. 534.108.  STANDARDS OF CARE.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall develop standards of care for the services provided by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority and its subcontractors under this subchapter.(b)  The standards must be designed to ensure that the quality of community-based intellectual disability services is consistent with the quality of care available in department facilities.(c)  In conjunction with local intellectual and developmental disability authorities, the executive commissioner shall review the standards biennially to determine if each standard is necessary to ensure the quality of care.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.109 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.109. Contract Compliance for Local Authorities

Sec. 534.109.  CONTRACT COMPLIANCE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES.  (a)  The department shall evaluate a local intellectual and developmental disability authority's compliance with its contract to ensure the provision of specific services to priority populations.(b)  If, by a date set by the commissioner, a local intellectual and developmental disability authority fails to comply with its contract to ensure the provision of services to the satisfaction of the commissioner, the department may impose a sanction as provided by the applicable contract rule until the dispute is resolved.  The department shall notify the authority in writing of the department's decision to impose a sanction.(c)  A local intellectual and developmental disability  authority may appeal the department's decision to impose a sanction on the authority.  The executive commissioner by rule shall prescribe the appeal procedure.(d)  The filing of a notice of appeal stays the imposition of the department's decision to impose a sanction except when an act or omission by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority is endangering or may endanger the life, health, welfare, or safety of a person.(e)  While an appeal under this section is pending, the department may limit general revenue allocations to a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to monthly distributions.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.110 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.110. Program and Service Monitoring and Review of Local Authorities

Sec. 534.110.  PROGRAM AND SERVICE MONITORING AND REVIEW OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES.  (a)  The department shall develop mechanisms for monitoring the services provided by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority.(b)  The department shall review the program quality and program performance results of a local intellectual and developmental disability authority in accordance with a risk assessment and evaluation system appropriate to the authority's contract requirements.  The department may determine the scope of the review.(c)  A contract between a local intellectual and developmental disability authority and the department must authorize the department to have unrestricted access to all facilities, records, data, and other information under the control of the authority as necessary to enable the department to audit, monitor, and review the financial and program activities and services associated with department funds.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.111 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.111. Coordinated Program Audits of Local Authorities

Sec. 534.111.  COORDINATED PROGRAM AUDITS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall coordinate with each agency or department of the state that contracts with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to prescribe procedures for a coordinated program audit of the authority.  The procedures must be:(1)  consistent with the requirements for the receipt of federal funding by the authority; and(2)  based on risk assessment.(b)  A program audit must evaluate:(1)  the extent to which a local intellectual and developmental disability authority is achieving the results or benefits established by an agency or department of the state or by the legislature;(2)  the effectiveness of the authority's organization, program, activities, or functions; and(3)  the authority's compliance with law.(c)  A program audit of a local intellectual and developmental disability authority must be performed in accordance with the procedures prescribed under this section.(d)  The department may not implement a procedure for a program audit under this section without the approval of the executive commissioner.(e)  This section does not prohibit an agency, department, or other entity providing funding to a local intellectual and developmental disability authority from investigating a complaint against the authority or performing additional contract monitoring of the authority.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.112 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.112. Financial Audits of Local Authorities

Sec. 534.112.  FINANCIAL AUDITS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall prescribe procedures for a financial audit of a local intellectual and developmental disability authority.  The procedures must be consistent with requirements for the receipt of federal funding by the authority.(b)  The executive commissioner shall develop the procedures with the assistance of each agency or department of the state that contracts with a local intellectual and developmental disability authority.  The executive commissioner  shall incorporate each agency's or department's financial or compliance requirements for an authority into a single audit that meets the requirements of Section 534.121.(c)  Before prescribing or amending a procedure under this section, the executive commissioner must set a deadline for agencies and departments of the state that contract with local intellectual and developmental disability authorities to submit proposals relating to the procedure.(d)  An agency or department of the state that contracts with a local intellectual and developmental disability  authority must comply with a procedure developed under this section.(e)  The department may not implement a procedure under this section without the approval of the executive commissioner.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.113 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.113. Additional Financial Audit Activity

Sec. 534.113.  ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL AUDIT ACTIVITY.  (a)  The executive commissioner shall develop protocols for an agency or department of the state to conduct additional financial audit activities of a local intellectual and developmental disability authority.(b)  An agency or department of the state may not conduct additional financial audit activities relating to a local intellectual and developmental disability authority without the approval of the executive commissioner.(c)  This section, and a protocol developed under this section, do not apply to an audit conducted under Chapter 321, Government Code.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.114 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.114. Program and Service Monitoring and Review of Certain Community Services

Sec. 534.114.  PROGRAM AND SERVICE MONITORING AND REVIEW OF CERTAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES.  (a)  The local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall monitor the services of a provider who contracts with the authority to provide services to persons with an intellectual disability to ensure that the provider is delivering the services in a manner consistent with the provider's contract.(b)  Each provider contract involving the use of state funds or funds for which the state has oversight responsibility must authorize the local intellectual and developmental disability authority or the authority's designee and the department or the department's designee to have unrestricted access to all facilities, records, data, and other information under the control of the provider as necessary to enable the department to audit, monitor, and review the financial and program activities and services associated with the contract.(c)  The department may withdraw funding from a local intellectual and developmental disability authority that fails to cancel a contract with a provider involving the use of state funds or funds for which the state has oversight responsibility if:(1)  the provider is not fulfilling its contractual obligations; and(2)  the authority has not taken appropriate action to remedy the problem in accordance with department rules.(d)  The executive commissioner by rule shall prescribe procedures a local intellectual and developmental disability authority must follow in remedying a problem with a provider.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 534.115 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 7 - Mental Health and Intellectual Disability|Subtitle A - Services for Persons With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability|Chapter 534 - Community Services|Subchapter B. -1. Community-Based Intellectual Disability Services|Section 534.115. Peer Review Organization

Sec. 534.115.  PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION.  The department shall assist a local intellectual and developmental disability authority in developing a peer review organization to provide self-assessment of programs and to supplement department reviews under Section 534.110.|Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1336, eff. April 2, 2015.|