information regarding the clients and client households served by
the network, including, if the information is volunteered by the
clients after the clients have been given an opportunity to provide
informed and explicit consent:
                         (i)  the gender, race, and ethnicity of each
client; and
                         (ii)  whether the client or a member of the
                               (b)  involved in the criminal justice
system;
                               (c)  pregnant; or
                               (d)  the caregiver to a child who is
five years of age or younger or a kinship caregiver;
             (5)  use a standardized screening tool to identify the
nonmedical drivers of health for all clients who provide informed
and explicit consent to be screened using the screening tool;
             (6)  provide enhanced navigation services under a level
of care three (LOC-3) as prescribed by the Department of State
Health Services' Texas Resilience and Recovery Utilization
Management Guidelines in order to:
                   (A)  better address complex client needs; and
                   (B)  collaborate with community partners;
             (7)  be capable of providing closed-loop referrals to
support clients and track referral outcomes;
             (8)  exchange resource data with external partners,
including vendors, through data sharing agreements for the purposes
of:
                   (A)  connecting clients to a requested service;
                   (B)  addressing nonmedical drivers of health; and
     Statutes affected: Introduced: Government Code 531.0312, Government Code 531.0313 (Government Code 531)