Texas Administrative Code › Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION › Chapter 213 - AREA AGENCIES ON AGING › Subchapter A - OPERATION OF THE AREA AGENCIES ON AGING › Section 213.1 - Designation of Planning and Service Areas

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The Texas Department on Aging develops and maintains the
					 aging services network by designation of planning and service areas and area
					 agencies on aging.
(1) Application for
				  designation to become a planning and service area. The Department provides an
				  opportunity to any unit of general-purpose local government or Indian
				  reservation to apply to be designated as a PSA. The State may designate as a
				  planning and service area any unit of general-purpose local government which
				  has a population of 100,000 or more. In any case in which a unit of
				  general-purpose local government makes application to the State agency under
				  this part to be designated a planning and service area, the State agency shall,
				  upon request, provide an opportunity for a public hearing on such application
				  to such unit of general-purpose local government. Public agencies of units of
				  general-purpose local government shall have the right of first refusal for new
				  area agency on aging designation, where the boundaries of the unit of
				  general-purpose local government and the boundaries of the planning and service
				  area are reasonably contiguous.
(2)
				  Submission requirements. Applicants for PSA designation shall submit a written
				  application to the Department no later than October 1 of the year preceding
				  development of the State Plan. The application will include the following:
(A) the distribution of persons age 60 and
				  older within the proposed PSA in relation to those other counties within the
				  State regional planning area involved delineating those persons age 60 and
				  older with the greatest economic need and greatest social need;
(B) a narrative and statistical description
				  of the incidence of need for services supported by the Older Americans Act in
				  the proposed PSA;
(C) a list of
				  agencies providing services supported by the Older Americans Act in the
				  proposed PSA;
(D) written evidence
				  of approval by resolution of 75% of the general-purpose local government unit
				  and other pictorial information depicting, at a minimum, the state-delineated
				  regional planning areas, Indian reservations, existing economic development
				  district boundaries and areas, boundaries of the state-delineated health
				  services area, and the Department of Human Resources district area;
(E) if the proposed PSA's boundaries are not
				  contiguous with an existing designated state regional planning area, but is
				  either a subdivision of or a combination of such areas, a narrative and
				  statistical description shall address, as well, the basis of need for a PSA
				  other than the regional planning areas involved;
(F) an applicant that is submitting an
				  application for designation as an interstate PSA shall include the following:
(i) written indication of local interstate
				  governmental agency support;
(ii)
				  information as required in paragraph (2) of this subsection;
(iii) a list and description of those
				  agencies providing aging services within the interstate area involved;
				  and
(iv) description of particular
				  local conditions that may affect the written conditions agreed upon by each
				  State as required by federal regulations.