1-1 By: Zaffirini, Moncrief S.B. No. 602 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1995; February 16, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human 1-4 Services; March 16, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; 1-6 March 16, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 602 By: Zaffirini 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the development and implementation of a computer 1-11 database to reduce fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, is amended 1-14 by adding Section 16A to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 16A. MEDICAID DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM. (a) The 1-16 commission and each health and human services agency that 1-17 administers a part of the state Medicaid program shall jointly 1-18 develop a system to coordinate and integrate state Medicaid 1-19 databases to: 1-20 (1) facilitate the comprehensive analysis of Medicaid 1-21 data; and 1-22 (2) detect fraud perpetrated by a program provider or 1-23 client. 1-24 (b) To minimize cost and duplication of activities, the 1-25 commission shall assist and coordinate: 1-26 (1) the efforts of the agencies that are participating 1-27 in the development of the system required by Subsection (a); and 1-28 (2) the efforts of those agencies with the efforts of 1-29 other agencies involved in health-related computer database 1-30 activities provided for by legislation enacted by the 74th 1-31 Legislature. 1-32 (c) On the request of the commissioner, a state agency that 1-33 administers any part of the state Medicaid program shall assist the 1-34 commission in developing the system required by this section. 1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-41 * * * * *