74R11589 CLG-F
          By Coleman                                            H.B. No. 2810
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2810:
          By Coleman                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2810
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to Medicaid coverage of certain nutritional feedings,
    1-3  nutritional counseling services, and medical nutritional products.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Subsection (t) to read as follows:
    1-7        (t)  Subject to the availability of funds appropriated by the
    1-8  legislature, the state shall provide coverage under the state
    1-9  Medicaid program for parenteral and enteral nutritional feedings,
   1-10  medical nutritional products taken orally, restorative feedings
   1-11  that are medically necessary and cost-effective, and nutritional
   1-12  counseling services that are provided for medical purposes.  The
   1-13  state may require prior authorization as a condition for coverage
   1-14  of medical nutritional products under this subsection.  In this
   1-15  subsection, "medical nutritional product" means a product
   1-16  prescribed by a physician that is necessary for the nutritional
   1-17  management of an illness, injury, disorder, or other health
   1-18  condition as prescribed by the Texas Department of Health.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.