(a) An individual's service planning team must determine during the person-centered planning process whether an individual desires to work and if so, the individual's case manager or service coordinator must:
  (1) document the individual's desire to work on the individual's person-centered service plan; and
  (2) complete the HHSC Employment First Discovery Tool available on the HHSC website to determine:
    (A) the individual's employment goals; and
    (B) the employment opportunities and employment services available to the individual through the program in which the individual is enrolled.
(b) An individual's service planning team must use the individual's employment goals, employment opportunities, and the employment services chosen by the individual to develop the individual's person-centered service plan.
(c) An individual's case manager or service coordinator must ensure that the requirements in subsections (a) and (b) of this section are followed when the individual's service planning team meets to:
  (1) develop the individual's person-centered service plan upon:
    (A) initial enrollment; and
    (B) for annual renewals; and
  (2) revise the individual's person-centered service plan if the purpose of the revision is because the individual expresses a desire to work and the individual's person-centered service plan does not include an employment service.

Source Note: The provisions of this §284.105 adopted to be effective November 14, 2023, 48 TexReg 6357