2025 Texas Statutes
Human Resources Code
Title 6 - Services for the Elderly
Chapter 101A - State Services for the Aging
Subchapter A. General Provisions
Section 101A.003. Cooperation With Federal and State Agencies
Sec. 101A.003. COOPERATION WITH FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES. (a) The department is the state agency designated to handle federal programs relating to the aging that require action within the state and that are not the specific responsibility of another state agency under federal or state law.
(b) The department is not intended to supplant or to take over from the counties and municipalities of this state or from other state agencies or facilities any of the specific responsibilities relating to services for the aging that they hold. The department shall cooperate with federal and state agencies, counties, and municipalities and private agencies or facilities in the state in accomplishing the purposes of this chapter.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.361, eff. April 2, 2015.