By Lindsay S.B. No. 957 75R6320 SKB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to billing disclosure requirements for providers of home 1-3 and community support services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 142.017 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 142.017. RULES FOR DISCLOSURE OF BILLING PROCEDURES. 1-8 The board by rule shall require a person licensed under this 1-9 chapter to disclose to a client within a reasonable time determined 1-10 by the board after services are rendered a description of services 1-11 provided to the client, any amount billed to the client for those 1-12 services, and any amount billed to Medicare, Medicaid, or a private 1-13 insurance company for those services. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 (b) The Texas Board of Health shall prescribe rules in 1-16 accordance with Section 142.017, Health and Safety Code, as added 1-17 by this Act, not later than January 1, 1998. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.