By: Gutierrez, Castro H.B. No. 1363
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the diabetes mellitus registry pilot program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 1(c), (d), and (e), Chapter 706 (H.B.
  2132), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  The department shall select to participate in the pilot
  program a public health district that serves a county with a
  population of less than two million and contains a municipality
  with a population of over one million. The department and the
  public health district shall create an electronic registry to track
  the glycosylated hemoglobin level and the diagnosis codes of each
  person who:
               (1)  has a laboratory test to determine that level
  performed at a clinical laboratory in the district; and
               (2)  consents in writing to the inclusion of the
  person's information in the registry.
         (d)  A physician practicing in the participating public
  health district who orders a glycosylated hemoglobin test for a
  patient shall submit to the clinical laboratory the diagnosis codes
  of a patient along with the patient's sample if the patient consents
  in writing to have the patient's information included in the
  registry. A clinical laboratory located in the participating
  public health district shall submit to the district and the
  department for a patient who has given written consent the results
  of the patient's [each] glycosylated hemoglobin test along with the
  diagnostic codes provided by the physician for that patient [that
  the laboratory performs].
         (e)  The department and the participating public health
  district shall:
               (1)  compile results submitted under Subsection (d) of
  this section in order to track:
                     (A)  the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among
  people tested in the district;
                     (B)  the level of diabetic control for the
  patients with diabetes mellitus in each demographic group [exert
  over the diabetes mellitus];
                     (C)  the trends of new diagnoses of diabetes
  mellitus in the district; and
                     (D)  the health care costs associated with
  diabetes mellitus and glycosylated hemoglobin testing; and
               (2)  promote discussion and public information
  programs regarding diabetes mellitus.
         SECTION 2.  Section 2, Chapter 706 (H.B. 2132), Acts of the
  80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 2.  RULES. The executive commissioner of the Health and
  Human Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement Section 1
  of this Act, including rules to govern the format and method of
  collecting glycosylated hemoglobin data and patient diagnosis
  codes.
         SECTION 3.  Section 4, Chapter 706 (H.B. 2132), Acts of the
  80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 4.  REPORT. Not later than December 1, 2010 [2009], the
  Department of State Health Services shall submit a report to the
  governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of
  representatives, and appropriate standing committees of the
  legislature regarding the diabetes mellitus registry pilot program
  that includes:
               (1)  an evaluation of the effectiveness of the pilot
  program; and
               (2)  a recommendation to continue, expand, or eliminate
  the pilot program.
         SECTION 4.  Section 5, Chapter 706 (H.B. 2132), Acts of the
  80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 5.  EXPIRATION. This Act expires September 1, 2011
  [2010].
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.