By Junell H.B. No. 2307 75R4434 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to granting the Health and Human Services Commission the 1-3 authority to determine fees, charges, and payment rates under the 1-4 state Medicaid program. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 531.021, Government Code, is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 531.021. Administration of Medicaid Program. (a) The 1-9 commission is the state agency designated to administer federal 1-10 medical assistance funds. 1-11 (b) The commission is responsible for adopting reasonable 1-12 rules and standards governing the determination of fees, charges, 1-13 and rates for medical assistance payments under Chapter 32, Human 1-14 Resources Code. 1-15 SECTION 2. Rules and standards of a state agency that 1-16 operates part of the state Medicaid program that were adopted under 1-17 Section 32.028, Human Resources Code, before the effective date of 1-18 this Act are continued in effect as rules and standards of the 1-19 Health and Human Services Commission under Section 531.021, 1-20 Government Code, as amended by this Act, until superseded by a rule 1-21 or standard of the Health and Human Services Commission. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.