78R19575 YDB-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, H.B. No. 727 (Delisi/Janek)







By:  Delisi                                           H.R. No. 1776


R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of 
Texas, 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That House Rule 13, 
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, 
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to 
resolve the differences on House Bill 727, relating to disease 
management programs for certain Medicaid recipients, to consider 
and take action on the following matter:
	House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the 
committee to add text to Section 32.059(e), Human Resources Code, 
to read as follows:
	(e)  The department may enter into a contract under this 
section with a comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment 
center that receives funding through a maternal and child health 
services block grant under Section 501(a)(2), Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. Section 701), and the center shall be considered a 
disease management provider.
	Explanation:  The added text is necessary to ensure that a 
comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment center is considered 
a disease management provider.