Sec. 131.008. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. (a) The Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Transportation shall enter into a memorandum of understanding relating to functions performed by each agency that relate to the duties of the office.

(b) The agencies shall include provisions in the memorandum of understanding necessary to ensure that the agencies do not have duplicative authority, responsibilities, or activities in the area of transportation services for clients of health and human services agencies. Specifically, the memorandum of understanding must include the following provisions:

(1) an acknowledgement that the data collection and analysis activities of the office and the Health and Human Services Commission are comprehensive in scope, with the goal of developing a statewide coordination plan for the provision of transportation services for clients of health and human services agencies;

(2) an acknowledgement that the data collection and analysis activities of the Texas Department of Transportation are focused on providing more accurate social service contracting information to transit providers;

(3) a requirement that the Texas Department of Transportation participate and assist in the collection of information about transportation service funding from local social service providers and make any database with that information available to the Health and Human Services Commission; and

(4) a requirement that the Health and Human Services Commission:

(A) develop standardized reporting methods for health and human services agencies and social service providers to use when reporting information about transportation services, funding, contracting, and all other information needed to develop a statewide coordination plan for transportation services; and

(B) make the information collected under Paragraph (A) available to the Texas Department of Transportation.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1460, Sec. 6.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.