This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
Amend SB 1 on third reading by striking SECTIONS 40.01, 40.03, and 40.06 as amended on second reading by Amendment No. 1 by Pitts and substitute the following SECTIONS:
SECTION 40.01. Subsection (a), Section 501.133, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The committee consists of five voting [nine] members and one nonvoting member [appointed] as follows:
(1) one member [two members] employed full-time by the department, [at least one of whom is a physician,] appointed by the executive director;
(2) one member who is a physician and [two members] employed full-time by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, [at least one of whom is a physician,] appointed by the president of the medical branch;
(3) one member who is a physician and [two members] employed full-time by the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, [at least one of whom is a physician,] appointed by the president of the university; [and]
(4) two [three] public members appointed by the governor who are not affiliated with the department or with any entity with which the committee has contracted to provide health care services under this chapter, at least one [two] of whom is [are] licensed to practice medicine in this state; and
(5) the state Medicaid director, to serve ex officio as a nonvoting member.
SECTION 40.03. Section 501.136, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 501.136. TERMS OF OFFICE FOR PUBLIC MEMBERS. Committee members appointed by the governor serve staggered four-year [six-year] terms, with the term of one of those members expiring on February 1 of each odd-numbered year. Other committee members serve at the will of the appointing official or until termination of the member's employment with the entity the member represents.
SECTION 40.06. (a) The Correctional Managed Health Care Committee established under Section 501.133, Government Code, as that section existed before amendment by this article, is abolished effective November 30, 2011.
(b) An appointing official under Section 501.133, Government Code, shall appoint the members of the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee under Section 501.133, Government Code, as amended by this Act, not later than November 30, 2011. The governor shall appoint one public member to serve a term that expires February 1, 2013, and one public member to serve a term that expires February 1, 2015.
(c) The term of a person who is serving as a member of the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee immediately before the abolition of that committee under Subsection (a) of this section expires on November 30, 2011. Such a person is eligible for appointment by an appointing official to the new committee under Section 501.133, Government Code, as amended by this article.