By: Zerwas H.R. No. 2730
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
 
         BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
  Texas, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, That House Rule 13,
  Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
  Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
  resolve the differences on Senate Bill 23 (administration of and
  efficiency, cost-saving, fraud prevention, and funding measures
  for certain health and human services and health benefits programs,
  including the medical assistance and child health plan programs) to
  consider and take action on the following matters:
         (1)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit
  the committee to change text that is not in disagreement in proposed
  SECTION 7(b) of the bill, in added Section 161.082(b), Human
  Resources Code, to read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall perform a utilization review of
  services in all Section 1915(c) waiver programs. The utilization
  review must include, at a minimum, reviewing program recipients'
  levels of care and any plans of care for those recipients that
  exceed service level thresholds established in the applicable
  waiver program guidelines.
         Explanation: The change in the text is necessary to clarify
  that the requirements of a utilization review listed in added
  Section 161.082(b), Human Resources Code, do not represent an
  exclusive list of requirements.
         (2)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit
  the committee to add text on a matter not included in either the
  house or the senate version of the bill by adding the following
  subsection to proposed SECTION 3 of the bill:
         (l)  Subsection (d), Section 533.012, Government Code, is
  repealed.
         Explanation: The addition of this text is necessary repeal a
  provision exempting Medicaid managed care organizations from
  providing fraud control information regarding subcontractors in
  excess of the fraud control information required under certain
  contracts.
         (3)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit
  the committee to add text on a matter not included in either the
  house or the senate version of the bill by adding the following
  proposed SECTION to the bill:
         SECTION 21.  GRANTS FOR FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE PROVIDERS.
  (a) Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Section 531.0025 to read as follows:
         Sec. 531.0025.  RESTRICTIONS ON AWARDS TO FAMILY PLANNING
  SERVICE PROVIDERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, money
  appropriated to the Department of State Health Services for the
  purpose of providing family planning services must be awarded:
               (1)  to eligible entities in the following order of
  descending priority:
                     (A)  public entities that provide family planning
  services, including state, county, and local community health
  clinics;
                     (B)  nonpublic entities that provide
  comprehensive primary and preventive care services in addition to
  family planning services; and
                     (C)  nonpublic entities that provide family
  planning services but do not provide comprehensive primary and
  preventive care services; or
               (2)  as otherwise directed by the legislature in the
  General Appropriations Act.
         (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the Department of State
  Health Services may award money to eligible entities in medically
  underserved areas of the state out of the order of priority required
  by that subsection.
         (b)  Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
         (c-1)  The department shall ensure that money spent for
  purposes of the demonstration project for women's health care
  services under former Section 32.0248, Human Resources Code, or a
  similar successor program is not used to perform or promote
  elective abortions, or to contract with entities that perform or
  promote elective abortions or affiliate with entities that perform
  or promote elective abortions.
         Explanation: The addition of this text is necessary to give
  direction regarding and impose restrictions on the use of money
  appropriated for family planning services and other women's health
  care services.