By Coleman H.B. No. 974 75R3754 SKB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the reimbursement for certain medications under the 1-3 Chronically Ill and Disabled Children's Services Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Health and Safety Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 35.0041 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 35.0041. REIMBURSEMENT FOR HEMOPHILIA FACTOR AND GROWTH 1-8 HORMONE. (a) The department shall set the reimbursement level for 1-9 hemophilia factor claims made under this chapter at the price set 1-10 for hemophilia factor in accordance with 38 U.S.C. Section 8126, 1-11 plus any additional amount the department determines reasonable as 1-12 a dispensing fee. 1-13 (b) The department shall use the vendor drug program to 1-14 provide growth hormone to a child receiving growth hormone under 1-15 this chapter, except when another method of providing growth 1-16 hormone is necessary to adequately serve the child. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.