- (a) The department shall solicit proposals from community providers to operate community residential programs for elderly residents at least every two years.
(b) The department shall require each provider to:
(1) offer adequate assurances of ability to:
- (A) provide the required services;
- (B) meet department standards; and
- (C) safeguard the safety and well-being of each resident; and
- (2) sign a memorandum of agreement with the local intellectual and developmental disability authority outlining the responsibilities for continuity of care and monitoring, if the provider is not the local authority.
- (c) The department may fund a proposal through a contract if the provider agrees to meet the requirements prescribed by Subsection (b) and agrees to provide the services at a cost that is equal to or less than the cost to the department to provide the services.
- (d) The appropriate local intellectual and developmental disability authority shall monitor the services provided to a resident placed in a program funded under this section. The department may monitor any service for which it contracts.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1335, eff. April 2, 2015.