HHSC now provides oversight and administrative support for Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS also includes the Department of State Health Services.
Leadership: Cecile Erwin Young is the HHSC executive commissioner. Young said the agency administers 120 websites and 376 applications, with 183 of those designated as mission-critical.
Ricardo Blanco is the deputy executive commissioner of IT and the chief information officer. Read Industry Insider — Texas’ recent interview with him.
Budget: The commission’s budget is more than $39 billion; however, in January, the Texas House of Representatives approved a budget draft that would appropriate more than $44 billion in both 2024 and 2025.
The agency’s IT budget is $1.7 billion, with 1,936 IT employees; the entire agency employs 37,467 across the state. They serve more than 7.5 million Texans with various health, wellness and social services.
Noteworthy: Programming for assistance to the needy, children, senior citizens and the blind has been codified in Texas since the Child Welfare Division of the Board of Control began in 1931. Multiple configurations for health and welfare assistance have been administered under the Department of Public Welfare beginning in 1965 and later by the Texas Department of Human Resources in 1980, according to the Handbook of Texas.
Funding requests include application modernization, a cloud migration, a modern fax solution and various consolidations, Blanco said in his February interview. They are also asking for a round-the-clock cybersecurity operations center, among other security measures.
HHSC posts procurements at Texas SmartBuy; its agency search number is 529.
