Amend HB 2030 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Section 531.073, Government Code, is amended 
by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section and 
subject to the limitation of this subsection, the commission shall 
allow a physician to write a total of 24 prescriptions each year 
without obtaining prior authorization for drugs that would 
otherwise require that authorization, and the commission shall 
provide reimbursement for those drugs under the Medicaid vendor 
drug program to the extent reimbursement would be provided if that 
authorization were obtained.  The total number of prescriptions 
written for a single patient under this subsection may not exceed 
two per year.