78R19572 YDB-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, H.B. No. 727







By:  Janek                                            S.R. No. 1037


R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 78th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That Senate Rule 12.03 be 
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 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:
	(1)  Senate Rule 12.03(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.