Home and Community-based Services, Texas Home Living, and Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities Medicaid Waiver Programs: Work Readiness

Welcome and call to order. The meeting was convened by Kate Layman, HHSC Public hearing on prevocational or similar services under HCS, TxHmL, and DBMD Medicaid. The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) conducted a hybrid public hearing, on February 15, 2024 to solicit feedback and public comment on the prevocational or similar services under Home and Community-based Services (HCS), Texas Home Living (TxHmL), and Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (DBMD) Medicaid waiver programs, as related to House Bill 4169, 88th Regular Session, 2023. waiver programs as related to House Bill 4169, 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023 Overview presentation by HHSC staff.  House Bill 4169, 88th Regular Legislative, Session 2023  amended Human Resources Code, Subchapter B, Chapter 32, by adding Section 32.0755 Prevocational Services Under Certain Waiver Programs.  The Bill directed HHSC to include prevocational services or a service similar to prevocational services in t