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Amend CSSB 23 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately lettered subsections to SECTION 3 of the bill and relettering subsequent subsections of SECTION 3 accordingly:

(____) Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 533.0073 to read as follows:

Sec. 533.0073. MEDICAL DIRECTOR QUALIFICATIONS. A person who serves as a medical director for a managed care plan must be a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state under Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code.

(____) Section 533.0073, Government Code, as added by this section, applies only to a person hired or otherwise retained as the medical director of a Medicaid managed care plan on or after the effective date of this Act. A person hired or otherwise retained before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.