Section 531.001 - [Repealed Effective 4/1/2025] Definitions In this subtitle:
(1) "Caseload standards" means the minimum and maximum number of cases that an employee can reasonably be expected to perform in a normal work month based on the number of cases handled by or the number of different job functions performed by the employee.(1-a) "Child health plan program" means the child health plan program established under Chapters 62 and 63, Health and Safety Code.(2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services Commission.(3) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.(3-a) "Health and human services system" means the system for providing or otherwise administering health and human services in this state by the commission, including through an office or division of the commission or through another entity under the administrative and operational control of the executive commissioner.(4) "Health and human services agencies" includes the:(A) Department of Aging and Disability Services;(B) Department of State Health Services; and(C) Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services.(4-a) "Home telemonitoring service" means a health service that requires scheduled remote monitoring of data related to a patient's health and transmission of the data to a licensed home and community support services agency or a hospital, as those terms are defined by Section 531.02164(a).(4-b) "Medicaid" means the medical assistance program established under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code.(4-c) "Medicaid managed care organization" means a managed care organization as defined by Section 533.001 that contracts with the commission under Chapter 533 to provide health care services to Medicaid recipients.(4-d) "Platform" means the technology, system, software, application, modality, or other method through which a health professional remotely interfaces with a patient when providing a health care service or procedure as a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.(5) "Professional caseload standards" means caseload standards that are established or are recommended for establishment for employees of health and human services agencies by management studies conducted for health and human services agencies or by an authority or association, including the Child Welfare League of America, the National Eligibility Workers Association, the National Association of Social Workers, and associations of state health and human services agencies.(6) "Section 1915(c) waiver program" means a federally funded program of the state under Medicaid that is authorized under Section 1915(c) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396n(c)) .(6-a) "Teledentistry dental service" has the meaning assigned by Section 111.001, Occupations Code.(7) "Telehealth service" has the meaning assigned by Section 111.001, Occupations Code.(8) "Telemedicine medical service" has the meaning assigned by Section 111.001, Occupations Code.Tex. Gov't. Code § 531.001
Repealed by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 3.01, eff. 4/1/2025.Amended by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 840,Sec. 1, eff. 6/13/2023.Amended by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 811,Sec. 17, eff. 9/1/2021.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 964,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2019.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 1330,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2019.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 623,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2019.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 1235,Sec. 1, eff. 6/14/2019.Amended by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 316,Sec. 22, eff. 9/1/2017.Amended by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 205,Sec. 8, eff. 5/27/2017.Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 837,Sec. 2.01, eff. 9/1/2015.Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1,Sec. 2.007, eff. 4/2/2015.Amended By Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1205, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2011.Amended By Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 1.01(a) to 1.01(c), 2.01, eff. 9/1/2003Amended By Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 9.009, eff. 9/1/2003.Amended By Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 53, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2001Amended By Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 957, Sec. 6, eff. 9/1/2001Amended By Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1429, Sec. 9.007, eff. 9/1/2001Amended By Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/1999Amended By Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1999Amended By Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1460, Sec. 8.01, eff. 9/1/1999Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 14.01, eff. 9/1/1997Amended By Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1022, Sec. 97, eff. 9/1/1997Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 8.002(a), eff. 9/1/1995.