DSHS Legislative Reports – 2016

• Texas HIV Annual Report (504 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Biennial Report on School-Based Health Centers Fiscal Years 2014-2015 (2.5 mb, PDF)
  
  
• Texas Public Health Action Plan, Improving the Future Performance of the Public Health System 2017-2021 (3.7 mb, PDF)
  
  
• Hospital Emergency Room Data Collection (739 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Public Health Funding and Policy Committee 2016 Report (237 kb, PDF)
  • Response to the Public Health Funding and Policy Committee 2016 Report Recommendations (211 kb, PDF)
    
    
• Addendum to the Graduate Medical Education System and Physician Supply in Texas (1.8 mb, PDF)
  
  
• Report on Internet-Based Meningococcal Vaccine Exemption Requests for Public Junior and Community Colleges School Year 2015-16 (185 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Workplace Violence Against Nurses in Texas (1 mb, PDF)
  
  
• Medicaid Drug Donation Program Feasibility Study (474 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Primary and Secondary Congenital Syphilis Report (383 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Report on Emergency Medical Services, Dec. 2016 (351 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Medical Child Abuse Resource and Education System (MEDCARES) Biennial Report 2015-2016 (478 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Public Health Funding and Policy Committee Annual Report, Sept. 2016 (520 kb, PDF)
  • Response to the Public Health Funding and Policy Committee Report Recommendations, Oct. 2016 (602 kb, PDF)
    
    
• Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant - FY 2017 Application/ FY 2015 Annual Report (42 mb, PDF)
  
  
• Report on the Jail-Based Competency Restoration Pilot Program Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2016 (131 kb, PDF)
  
  
• 2016 Sunset Issue 12 (43K, PDF)
  
  
• Diabetes Mellitus Registry Report (70 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Public Health System Inventory (1.6 mb, PDF)         
  
  
• Cancer in Texas 2016 (356 kb, PDF)         
  
  
• Report on the New Location Options for Austin State Hospital and the Austin State Supported Living Center (12,432 kb, PDF)         
  
• Attachment 1 - New Location Options Feasibility Study (8,074 kb, PDF)         
  
• State Hospitals and Academic Partnerships (857 kb, PDF)         
  
  
• Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Biennial Report 2016 (1.5 mb, PDF) 
  
  
• The Graduate Medical Education System and Physician Supply in Texas (359 kb, PDF) 
  
  
• Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force and Department of State Health Services Joint Biennial Report (532 kb, PDF) 
  
  
• Annual Report on the Screening of Offenders with Mental Illness (240 kb, PDF) 
  
  
• Fiscal Year 2015 Report on State Hospital Staffing By Quarter (677 kb, PDF) 
  
  
• Recommendations for the Creation of a Comprehensive Plan for Forensic Services (495 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Texas HIV Annual Report (684 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Barriers to Providing Mental Health Medication to the Homeless Mentally Ill Population (352 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Primary Health Care and Expanded Primary Health Care Services FY 2015 Annual Report (960 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Report on the Jail Based Competency Restoration Pilot Program Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2016 (352 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Mental Health Program for Veterans (624 kb, PDF)
  
  
• NorthSTAR Transition (486 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Statewide Assessment of Existing Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes - April 2016 (1 mb, PDF)
  
  
• Home and Community-Based Services Expansion: Jail and Emergency Department Diversion (587 kb, PDF)
  
  
• RPC Hospital Emergency Room Data Collection Report  (72 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Texas Child Fatality Review Team Annual Report 2014-2015  (937 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Kidney Health Care Program Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report - Feb. 2016  (471 kb, PDF)
  
  
• Mental Health Appropriations and the 1115 Texas Medicaid Transformation Waiver - Jan. 2016  (154 kb, PDF)
  

2015 Legislative Reports