1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1592
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 6, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1592               By:  Zaffirini
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to implementation of certain procedures to ensure accuracy
1-11     of medical assistance eligibility lists.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 531.0214, Government Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-15           (e)  The commission shall ensure that the database system is
1-16     used each month to match bureau of vital statistics death records
1-17     with a list of persons eligible for medical assistance under
1-18     Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, and that each person who is
1-19     deceased is promptly removed from the list of persons eligible for
1-20     medical assistance.
1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 531.106, Government Code, is amended by
1-22     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-23           (g)  Each month, the learning or neural network technology
1-24     implemented under this section must match bureau of vital
1-25     statistics death records with Medicaid claims filed by a provider.
1-26     If the commission determines that a provider has filed a claim for
1-27     services provided to a person after the person's date of death, as
1-28     determined by the bureau of vital statistics death records, the
1-29     commission shall refer the case for investigation to the
1-30     commission's office of investigations and enforcement.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The Health and Human Services Commission shall
1-32     implement the matching systems required by Subsection (e), Section
1-33     531.0214, and Subsection (g), Section 531.106, Government Code, as
1-34     added by this Act, not later than December 31, 2000.
1-35           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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