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Chapter 269 S.B. No. 37 1 AN ACT 2 relating to providing home-based and community-based support 3 services under the Medicaid program to persons who are deaf-blind 4 with multiple disabilities. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 161, Human Resources Code, 7 is amended by adding Section 161.076 to read as follows: 8 Sec. 161.076. ELIGIBILITY FOR DEAF-BLIND WITH MULTIPLE 9 DISABILITIES WAIVER PROGRAM. (a) Subject to the availability of 10 funds appropriated for that purpose, the department shall provide 11 home-based and community-based services under the deaf-blind with 12 multiple disabilities waiver program without regard to a person's 13 age if the person applies for and is otherwise eligible to receive 14 services under the waiver program. 15 (b) Subsection (a) does not prevent the department from 16 establishing an age requirement with respect to other programs or 17 services offered to persons who are deaf-blind and have multiple 18 disabilities, including the summer outdoor training program for 19 deaf-blind multihandicapped individuals established under Section 20 22.036(c). 21 SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date 22 of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human 23 Services Commission shall apply for and actively pursue an 24 amendment to this state's deaf-blind with multiple disabilities
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Texas. Legislature. Senate.81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 37, Chapter 269,
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May 30, 2009;
[Austin, Texas].
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