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.
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