By Coleman H.B. No. 1939 75R6173 CLG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to Medicaid coverage of certain nutritional feedings, 1-3 nutritional counseling services, and medical nutritional products. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsection (t) to read as follows: 1-7 (t) Subject to the availability of funds appropriated by the 1-8 legislature, the state shall provide coverage under the state 1-9 Medicaid program for parenteral and enteral nutritional feedings, 1-10 medical nutritional products taken orally, restorative feedings 1-11 that are medically necessary and cost-effective, and nutritional 1-12 counseling services that are provided for medical purposes. The 1-13 state may require prior authorization as a condition for coverage 1-14 of medical nutritional products under this subsection. In this 1-15 subsection, "medical nutritional product" means a product 1-16 prescribed by a physician that is necessary for the nutritional 1-17 management of an illness, injury, disorder, or other health 1-18 condition as prescribed by the Texas Department of Health. 1-19 SECTION 2. If before implementing a provision of this Act a 1-20 state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a 1-21 federal agency is necessary for implementation, the agency shall 1-22 request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that 1-23 provision until the waiver or authorization is granted. 1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.