QUALITY CONTRACTING FRAMEWORK.
Tex. HUM. RES Code § 40.0582.
in effect(a) The department shall monitor and coordinate with general residential operations providing treatment services to children or young adults with emotional disorders to maintain and improve the quality of residential child-care services purchased by the department.
(b) In implementing the requirements of Subsection (a), the department shall consider any information the department determines relevant to assess the ability of a contractor or potential contractor to provide quality residential child-care services, including:
(1) the strength of the operational plan and all required components of the operational plan described by Section 42.252 ;
(2) the regulatory history of the contractor; and
(3) the history of the contractor on satisfying the performance measures developed under Section 40.058 .
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 394 (S.B. 781 ), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2019.