Texas Human Resources Code 22.040 – Determination of Eligibility for Community Care Services for Elderly Persons or Persons With Disabilities
Terms Used In Texas Human Resources Code 22.040
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
The executive commissioner by rule shall develop and the department shall implement a plan to assist elderly persons or persons with disabilities requesting community care services in receiving those services as quickly as possible when those services become available. The plan must require the department to:
(1) forecast participant openings that will become available in a community care program serving the elderly person or person with a disability during the next fiscal quarter because of program expansion or case closures;
(2) contact an individual on an interest list and begin the program eligibility determination process at least 30 days before an opening is forecasted to become available in the program; and
(3) ensure that an individual determined to be eligible for services does not begin receiving services until after the opening actually becomes available.