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.

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             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.

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                                                 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.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor