By Zaffirini, et al. S.B. No. 1163 75R5884 SAW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to information and training about Medicaid managed care. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 32.043 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 32.043. MANAGED CARE INFORMATION AND TRAINING PLAN. 1-7 (a) The department shall develop a plan to provide information and 1-8 training about the requirements of a managed care plan to 1-9 recipients of medical assistance, providers of medical assistance, 1-10 local health and human services agencies, and other interested 1-11 parties in each service area in which the department plans to 1-12 provide medical assistance through a managed care plan. 1-13 (b) The department shall provide initial information and 1-14 training in a service area not later than the 90th day before the 1-15 date on which the department plans to begin to provide medical 1-16 assistance through a managed care plan in that service area. After 1-17 the initial information and training, the department shall provide 1-18 information and training at regular intervals determined by the 1-19 department. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.