By: Moncrief S.B. No. 413 97S0241/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the administration of the Health and Human Services 1-2 Commission and the administration and funding of the state Medicaid 1-3 program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 531.012, Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 531.012. ADVISORY COMMITTEES. The commissioner shall 1-8 utilize the medical and hospital care advisory committees 1-9 authorized by Section 32.022, Human Resources Code, to assist the 1-10 commission with the development of Medicaid policies, procedures, 1-11 eligibility standards and benefits, provider payments, and 1-12 educational programs for Medicaid recipients and providers. The 1-13 commissioner may appoint other advisory committees as needed. 1-14 SECTION 2. Section 531.034, Government Code, is amended by 1-15 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-16 (d) In the development of commission rules, the commission 1-17 may utilize negotiated rulemaking procedures and may retain private 1-18 facilitators or neutral state-employed facilitators trained in 1-19 negotiated rulemaking and mediation to assist the commission with 1-20 the negotiated rulemaking. 1-21 SECTION 3. Section 32.028, Human Resources Code, is amended 1-22 by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-23 (e) In the development of rules, the department may utilize 2-1 negotiated rulemaking procedures and may retain private 2-2 facilitators or neutral state-employed facilitators trained in 2-3 negotiated rulemaking and mediation to assist the department with 2-4 the negotiated rulemaking. 2-5 SECTION 4. Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st 2-6 Called Session, 1991 (Article 4494q-2, Vernon's Texas Civil 2-7 Statutes), is repealed. 2-8 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-9 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.