1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 832 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2001; February 22, 2001, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human 1-4 Services; March 5, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 5, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to requiring reports from the Health and Human Services 1-9 Commission about the state Medicaid program. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Sections 531.02111 and 531.02112 to read as 1-13 follows: 1-14 Sec. 531.02111. BIENNIAL MEDICAID FINANCIAL REPORT. 1-15 (a) The commission shall prepare a biennial Medicaid financial 1-16 report covering each state agency that administers any part of the 1-17 state Medicaid program and each of the Medicaid programs operated 1-18 or administered by those agencies. 1-19 (b) The report must include: 1-20 (1) for each state agency described by Subsection (a): 1-21 (A) a description of each of the Medicaid 1-22 programs administered or operated by the agency; and 1-23 (B) an accounting of all funds related to the 1-24 state Medicaid program received and disbursed by the agency during 1-25 the period covered by the report, including: 1-26 (i) the amount of any federal medical 1-27 assistance funds allocated to the agency for the support of each 1-28 of the Medicaid programs operated or administered by the agency; 1-29 (ii) the amount of any funds appropriated 1-30 by the legislature to the agency for each of those programs; and 1-31 (iii) the amount of medical assistance 1-32 payments and related expenditures made by or in connection with 1-33 each of those programs; and 1-34 (2) for each Medicaid program identified in the 1-35 report: 1-36 (A) the amount and source of funds or other 1-37 revenue received by or made available to the agency for the 1-38 program; and 1-39 (B) the information required by Section 1-40 531.02112(b). 1-41 (c) The report must cover the three-year period ending on 1-42 the last day of the previous fiscal year. 1-43 (d) The commission may request from any appropriate state 1-44 agency information necessary to complete the report. Each agency 1-45 shall cooperate with the commission in providing information for 1-46 the report. 1-47 (e) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, 1-48 the commission shall submit the report to the governor, the 1-49 lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, 1-50 the presiding officer of each standing committee of the senate and 1-51 house of representatives having jurisdiction over health and human 1-52 services issues, and the comptroller. 1-53 Sec. 531.02112. QUARTERLY REPORT OF MEDICAID EXPENDITURES. 1-54 (a) The commission shall prepare a report, on a quarterly basis, 1-55 regarding the Medicaid expenditures of each state agency that 1-56 administers or operates a Medicaid program. 1-57 (b) The report must identify each agency's expenditures by 1-58 Medicaid program and must include for each program: 1-59 (1) the amount spent on each type of service or 1-60 benefit provided by or under the program; 1-61 (2) the amount spent on program operations, including 1-62 eligibility determination, claims processing, and case management; 1-63 and 1-64 (3) the amount spent on any other administrative 2-1 costs. 2-2 (c) The commission shall submit the report to the governor, 2-3 legislature, and comptroller. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-5 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-6 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-7 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-8 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 2-9 * * * * *