(a) This subchapter applies to local authorities and community centers. However, local authorities and community centers that are Medicaid providers of a home and community-based services waiver program must comply with TDMHMR rules governing the home and community-based services waiver program when addressing abuse, neglect, and exploitation in the home and community-based services waiver program.
(b) Local authorities and community centers are responsible for amending their contracts to ensure contractors' compliance with this subchapter.

Source Note: The provisions of this §301.653 adopted to be effective July 1, 2001, 26 TexReg 4708; transferred effective September 1, 2004, as published in the Texas Register September 10, 2004, 29 TexReg 8841; transferred effective May 31, 2024, as published in the May 3, 2024, issue of the Texas Register, 49 TexReg 3019