Sec. 2306.1096.  DUTIES; BIENNIAL REPORT.  (a)  The council shall:
(1)  develop and implement policies to coordinate and increase state efforts to offer service-enriched housing;
(2)  identify barriers preventing or slowing service-enriched housing efforts, including barriers attributable to the following factors:
(A)  regulatory requirements and limitations;
(B)  administrative limitations;
(C)  limitations on funding; and
(D)  ineffective or limited coordination;
(3)  develop a system to cross-educate selected staff in state housing and health services agencies to increase the number of staff with expertise in both areas and to coordinate relevant staff activities of those agencies;
(4)  identify opportunities for state housing and health services agencies to provide technical assistance and training to local housing and health services entities about:
(A)  the cross-education of staff;
(B)  coordination among those entities; and
(C)  opportunities to increase local efforts to create service-enriched housing; and
(5)  develop suggested performance measures to track progress in:
(A)  the reduction or elimination of barriers in creating service-enriched housing;
(B)  increasing the coordination between state housing and health services agencies;
(C)  increasing the number of state housing and health services staff who are cross-educated or who have expertise in both housing and health services programs; and
(D)  the provision of technical assistance to local communities by state housing and health services staff to increase the number of service-enriched housing projects.
(b)  The council shall develop a biennial plan to implement the goals described by Subsection (a).
(c)  Not later than August 1 of each even-numbered year, the council shall deliver a report of the council's findings and recommendations to the governor and the Legislative Budget Board.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 (S.B. 1878), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.