1-1 By: Hunter of Taylor (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 3120 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995; 1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to certain nursing facilities receiving reimbursement 1-9 under the state Medicaid program. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 32.0245 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 32.0245. NURSING HOME BEDS FOR CERTAIN FACILITIES 1-14 TREATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. The department shall waive for a 1-15 nursing facility a restriction imposed by state law on the 1-16 authority to contract under the state Medicaid program for nursing 1-17 home beds based on the percentage of beds that are occupied in a 1-18 geographical area if the facility: 1-19 (1) is affiliated with a medical school operated by 1-20 the state; 1-21 (2) is participating in a research program for the 1-22 care and treatment of persons with Alzheimer's disease; and 1-23 (3) is designed to separate and treat Alzheimer's 1-24 disease by stage or functional level. 1-25 SECTION 2. If before implementing Section 32.0245, Human 1-26 Resources Code, as added by this Act, the Texas Department of Human 1-27 Services determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal 1-28 agency is necessary for implementation, the department shall 1-29 request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that 1-30 section until the waiver or authorization is granted. 1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-37 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-38 * * * * *