AN ACT 1-1 relating to information and training about Medicaid managed care. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, 1-4 is amended by adding Section 32.043 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 32.043. MANAGED CARE INFORMATION AND TRAINING PLAN. 1-6 (a) Subject to the availability of funds, the department shall 1-7 develop a comprehensive plan to provide information and training 1-8 about the requirements of a managed care plan to recipients of 1-9 medical assistance, providers of medical assistance, local health 1-10 and human services agencies, and other interested parties in each 1-11 service area in which the department plans to provide medical 1-12 assistance through a managed care plan. 1-13 (b) The department shall include in the comprehensive plan: 1-14 (1) 180 days of initial information and training in a 1-15 service area beginning not later than the 90th day before the date 1-16 on which the department plans to begin to provide medical 1-17 assistance through a managed care plan in that service area; 1-18 (2) additional information and training at regular 1-19 intervals determined by the department; and 1-20 (3) performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness 1-21 of the information and training. 1-22 (c) In developing the comprehensive plan, the department 1-23 shall consult with the Medicaid medical care advisory committee. 2-1 (d) The department shall submit to the lieutenant governor, 2-2 the speaker of the house of representatives, the Senate Health and 2-3 Human Services Committee, and the House Public Health Committee a 2-4 semiannual report on the effectiveness of the comprehensive plan 2-5 developed under this section. The department may consolidate this 2-6 report with any other report relating to the same subject that the 2-7 department is required to submit under other law. 2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1163 passed the Senate on April 28, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 18, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1163 passed the House, with amendments, on May 16, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, two present not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor