Sec. 35.004.  PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES.  (a)  The department shall provide assistance to compensate a client for present and future expenses, including:
(1)  the purchase or lease of special equipment or architectural modifications of a home to improve or facilitate the care, treatment, therapy, general living conditions, or access of a person with a disability;
(2)  medical, surgical, therapeutic, diagnostic, and other health services related to a person's disability or disabilities;
(3)  counseling or training programs that assist a family in providing proper care for a family member with a disability or assist a person with a disability in an independent living situation and that provide for the special needs of the family or person with a disability;
(4)  attendant care, home health aide services, homemaker services, and chore services that provide support with training, routine body functions, dressing, preparation and consumption of food, and ambulation;
(5)  respite support for a family, if the family is the client;
(6)  transportation services for the person with a disability;  and
(7)  transportation, room, and board costs incurred by a family or a person with a disability during evaluation or treatment of a person with a disability that have been preapproved by the department.
(b)  The executive commissioner by rule may add services and programs for which the department may provide assistance.
(c)  The department's duty to provide assistance under this chapter is determined and limited by the funds specifically appropriated to administer this chapter.
(d)  The department may seek, accept, and expend funds from other sources to provide assistance under this chapter.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1208, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.174, eff. April 2, 2015.