1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 514
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1997; February 12, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; April 2, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 2, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to requiring the Health and Human Services Commission to
1-9 promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all Medicaid-funded
1-10 services.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 531.024, Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 531.024. Planning and Delivery of Health and Human
1-15 Services. The commissioner shall:
1-16 (1) facilitate and enforce coordinated planning and
1-17 delivery of health and human services, including:
1-18 (A) compliance with the coordinated strategic
1-19 plan;
1-20 (B) co-location of services;
1-21 (C) integrated intake; and
1-22 (D) coordinated referral and case management;
1-23 (2) develop with the Department of Information
1-24 Resources automation standards for computer systems to enable
1-25 health and human services agencies to share pertinent data;
1-26 (3) establish and enforce uniform regional boundaries
1-27 for all health and human services agencies;
1-28 (4) carry out statewide health and human services
1-29 needs surveys and forecasting; [and]
1-30 (5) perform independent special-outcome evaluations of
1-31 health and human services programs and activities; and
1-32 (6) promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all
1-33 Medicaid-funded services.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-35 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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