AN ACT 1-1 relating to assignment of Medicaid payments. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 32.036, Human Resources Code, is amended 1-4 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-5 (c) This section does not apply to the extent that it 1-6 conflicts with the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1-7 1396a(a)(32)). 1-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-14 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 614 passed the Senate on March 26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 614 passed the House on May 7, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, two present not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor