By Raymond, Maxey H.B. No. 586 74R2357 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an increase in federal funding for chemical dependency 1-3 treatment services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 10A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 10A. FEDERAL FUNDING FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY SERVICES. 1-8 The commission shall coordinate with the Texas Commission on 1-9 Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Texas Department of Human Services 1-10 to amend the eligibility requirements of the state's emergency 1-11 assistance plan under Title IV-A, federal Social Security Act (42 1-12 U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.), to include either a child or a 1-13 significant adult in a child's family who needs chemical dependency 1-14 treatment. 1-15 SECTION 2. The Texas Department on Alcohol and Drug Abuse 1-16 shall continue to study the feasibility of amending the state's 1-17 Medicaid plan to include chemical dependency treatment as an 1-18 allowable service. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.