Sunset review process - Aransas Pass Progress
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been outlining Texas’ sunset review process. The agencies I have covered so far are the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners and the Texas Lottery Commission. As a reminder, in order to identify and eliminate government waste, duplication and general inefficiencies in state agencies, the Texas Legislature established the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (Commission) in 1977. The sunset review process is designed to review each of these agencies every twelve years. This review is done by taking up a certain number of the state agencies each session when the Texas Legislature convenes. While some of the agencies undergoing the sunset review process are rather large agencies, some of the agencies undergoing the process are also quite small. One such agency is the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee (CMHCC). The CMHCC was established by the Legislature to provide oversight and coordination authority for the distribution of health care services provided to inmates that are incarcerated with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The CMHCC works on behalf of TDCJ to contract for the health related services provided to individuals who are confined in one of the state’s incarceration facilities. In order to meet their goals, CMHCC manages a partnership which TDCJ has with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). Read the full story >> |
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