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Members Sought for the Task Force on Patient Solicitation

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If you’re interested in the study and the making of recommendations to safeguard the public against fraud, deceit, and misleading marketing practices and to foster and encourage competition and fair dealing by mental health facilities and chemical dependency facilities by prohibiting or restricting practices by which the public has been injured in connection with the marketing and advertising of mental health services and the admission of patients, you may want to apply to be a member of the Task Force on Patient Solicitation. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission executive commissioner will appoint four members to the task force for terms to expire at the pleasure of the executive commissioner or the task force fulfills its duties.

The Task Force on Patient Solicitation is an eight-member joint task force between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Office of the Attorney General.

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2026.

HHSC will consider the applicants' qualifications, background and interest in serving on the committee and will choose committee members who represent the diversity of all Texans. For this reason, HHSC considers applicants' geographic location.

A Task Force on Patient Solicitation member must regularly take part in task force meetings. They may also have to take part in subcommittee meetings or other related activities. Task force meetings are held in Austin at a minimum quarterly, or at the call of the presiding officer as needed to complete the required report by the statutorily required deadline of December 1st of each even numbered year.

Members of the task force are not paid to participate in the task force nor reimbursed for their travel to and from meetings.

HHSC prefers that you submit your application electronically, but you may submit the application by email, mail or fax to the following addresses:

Email: HHS_Appointments@hhs.texas.gov
Subject: TFPS #0113

Mail:
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
P.O. Box 13247
Mail Code 0223
Austin, TX 78751
Attn: ACCO

Fax: 512-206-3984
Attn: TFPS #0113

For more information about the task force, email Robert Papierz.

For more information about the application process, email the Advisory Committee Coordination Office.

This agency does not discriminate against applicants and members of Texas Health and Human Services committees on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, religion, age or sex.