By Bivins S.B. No. 1118
74R8010 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation and implementation of the correctional
1-3 managed health care plan.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 501.059, Government Code, as added by
1-6 Chapter 238, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 501.059. CORRECTIONAL MANAGED HEALTH CARE ADVISORY
1-9 COMMITTEE. (a) The Correctional Managed Health Care Advisory
1-10 Committee to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is
1-11 established.
1-12 (b) The committee consists of:
1-13 (1) two members employed full-time by the department,
1-14 at least one of whom is a physician, appointed by the executive
1-15 director;
1-16 (2) two members employed full-time by The University
1-17 of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, at least one of whom is a
1-18 physician, appointed by the president of the medical branch; and
1-19 (3) two members employed full-time by the Texas Tech
1-20 University Health Sciences Center, at least one of whom is a
1-21 physician, appointed by the president of the university.
1-22 (c) A committee member serves at the pleasure of the
1-23 appointing official or until termination of the member's employment
1-24 with the entity the member represents.
2-1 (d) An appointment to the committee shall be made without
2-2 regard to the race, creed, sex, religion, disability, or national
2-3 origin of the appointee.
2-4 (e) A committee member serves without compensation but is
2-5 entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses
2-6 incurred in the performance of the duties of the committee.
2-7 (f) The committee shall meet at least once in each quarter
2-8 of the calendar year and at any other time at the call of the
2-9 chairman.
2-10 (g) The committee may hire a managed health care
2-11 administrator and may employ personnel necessary for the
2-12 administration of the committee's duties.
2-13 (h) <(g)> The committee shall develop a managed health care
2-14 plan for all persons confined by <inmates at> the department
2-15 <institutional division> that includes:
2-16 (1) the establishment of a managed care network of
2-17 physicians and hospitals that will serve the department
2-18 <institutional division> as the exclusive health care provider for
2-19 persons confined in institutions operated by the department
2-20 <inmates at each facility of the institutional division>;
2-21 (2) cost containment studies; and
2-22 (3) care case management and utilization management
2-23 studies performed <exclusively> for the department <institutional
2-24 division>.
2-25 (i) <(h)> To the extent possible the committee shall
2-26 integrate the managed health care provider network with the public
2-27 medical schools of this state and the component and affiliated
3-1 hospitals of those medical schools.
3-2 (j) <(i)> For those services for which the public medical
3-3 schools and their components and affiliates cannot provide, the
3-4 committee shall initiate a competitive bidding process for
3-5 contracts with other providers for medical care to persons
3-6 <inmates> confined by <in> the department <institutional division>.
3-7 (k) <(j)> The committee may enter into a contract on behalf
3-8 of the department to fully implement the managed health care plan
3-9 under Subsection (h) <(g)>.
3-10 (l) <(k)> The department shall pay necessary costs for the
3-11 operation of the committee, including costs of personnel, from
3-12 funds appropriated by the legislature to the department.
3-13 (m) <(l)> The <managed health care plan, inclusive of the
3-14 health care administrator and necessary personnel proposed by the>
3-15 committee<, must cost the state less than what is presently
3-16 provided, otherwise the status quo> shall evaluate and recommend to
3-17 the board sites for new medical facilities that appropriately
3-18 support the managed health care provider network <be maintained>.
3-19 (n) The committee may, in addition to providing services to
3-20 the department, contract with other governmental entities for
3-21 similar health care services and integrate those services into the
3-22 managed health care provider network.
3-23 (o) To implement the managed health care plan, The
3-24 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Texas Tech
3-25 Health Sciences Center, for employees who are entitled to retain
3-26 salary and benefits applicable to employees of the Texas Department
3-27 of Criminal Justice under Section 9.01, Chapter 238, Acts of the
4-1 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, may administer, offer, and
4-2 report through their payroll systems participation by those
4-3 employees in the Texas employees uniform group insurance benefits
4-4 program and the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
4-5 (p) The advisory committee may hold a meeting by telephone
4-6 conference call or other video or broadcast technology.
4-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
4-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-13 passage, and it is so enacted.