1-1  By:  Madla, Zaffirini                                  S.B. No. 605
    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. 605                    By:  Madla
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the duty of the Texas Department of Mental Health and
   1-11  Mental Retardation to evaluate and revise its sliding fee
   1-12  schedules.
   1-13        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-14        SECTION 1.  Section 552.017, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-15  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   1-16        (e)  The department shall evaluate and, if necessary, revise
   1-17  the fee schedule at least once every five years.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 593.075, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-19  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   1-20        (e)  The department shall evaluate and, if necessary, revise
   1-21  the fee schedule at least once every five years.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  Not later than January 1, 1996, the Texas
   1-23  Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation shall evaluate
   1-24  and, if necessary, revise its sliding fee schedules as required by
   1-25  Subsection (e), Section 552.017, and Subsection (e), Section
   1-26  593.075, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
   1-27        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-32  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-33  passage, and it is so enacted.
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