By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1663
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to Medicaid rates.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Human Resources Code Section 32.024 is amended by
 1-4     adding subsection (v)
 1-5     With respect to health care service regions, as that term is
 1-6     defined in Government Code Section 533.001(7), that are composed in
 1-7     part of counties bordering a foreign nation, the department shall
 1-8     study the effect of rates paid to managed care organizations
 1-9     participating in the Medicaid Managed Care Program, as that term is
1-10     contemplated in Government Code Chapter 533, on residents' access
1-11     to medical care.  A report regarding the study shall be issued to
1-12     the presiding officers of each chamber of the Texas Legislature on
1-13     or before October 15, 2000.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  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.