By Zaffirini S.B. No. 601 74R3831 MLR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain educational programs under a managed care 1-3 Medicaid program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 16, Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, 1-6 is amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 16. ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICAID PROGRAM. (a) On 1-8 approval by the federal government, the commission is the state 1-9 agency designated to administer federal medicaid assistance funds. 1-10 (b) In adopting rules implementing a state-managed care 1-11 Medicaid program, the commission shall establish guidelines for and 1-12 require managed care organizations to provide education programs 1-13 for providers and patients. Provider education programs shall 1-14 include information on administrative procedures for billing and 1-15 the specific problems and needs of Medicaid clients. Patient 1-16 education programs shall include: 1-17 (1) information on the patient's right to health care 1-18 services; and 1-19 (2) instruction on the patient's responsibility to 1-20 manage personal health care, including instruction on making and 1-21 keeping an appointment with a health care provider and the 1-22 importance of following drug regimens prescribed by the provider. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.