1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certification under the state Medicaid program of
 1-3     nursing home beds in certain nursing facilities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 32.0213, Human Resources Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  The department may exempt a nursing facility from the
 1-8     procedures established under this section if the facility:
 1-9                 (1)  is affiliated with a state-supported medical
1-10     school;
1-11                 (2)  is located on land owned or controlled by the
1-12     state-supported medical school; and
1-13                 (3)  serves as a teaching facility for physicians and
1-14     related health care professionals.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3693 was passed by the House on May
         3, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
         H.B. No. 3693 on May 22, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
         conference committee to consider the differences between the two
         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
         on H.B. No. 3693 on May 29, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 143,
         Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3693 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 20, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         3693 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor