By: Moncrief S.B. No. 514
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to requiring the Health and Human Services Commission to
1-2 promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all Medicaid-funded
1-3 services.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 531.024, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 531.024. Planning and Delivery of Health and Human
1-8 Services. The commissioner shall:
1-9 (1) facilitate and enforce coordinated planning and
1-10 delivery of health and human services, including:
1-11 (A) compliance with the coordinated strategic
1-12 plan;
1-13 (B) co-location of services;
1-14 (C) integrated intake; and
1-15 (D) coordinated referral and case management;
1-16 (2) develop with the Department of Information
1-17 Resources automation standards for computer systems to enable
1-18 health and human services agencies to share pertinent data;
1-19 (3) establish and enforce uniform regional boundaries
1-20 for all health and human services agencies;
1-21 (4) carry out statewide health and human services
1-22 needs surveys and forecasting; [and]
1-23 (5) perform independent special-outcome evaluations of
2-1 health and human services programs and activities; and
2-2 (6) promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all
2-3 Medicaid-funded services.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.