Amend SB 200 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to ARTICLE 3 of the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly:

SECTION 3.____.  Section 98.1046(a), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The [In consultation with the Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency under Chapter 1002, the] department, using data submitted under Chapter 108, shall publicly report for hospitals in this state risk-adjusted outcome rates for those potentially preventable complications and potentially preventable readmissions that the department[, in consultation with the institute,] has determined to be the most effective measures of quality and efficiency.

SECTION 3.____.  Section 98.1047(a), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The [In consultation with the Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency under Chapter 1002, the] department shall study which adverse health conditions commonly occur in long-term care facilities and, of those health conditions, which are potentially preventable.

SECTION 3.____.  Section 98.1065, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 98.1065.  STUDY OF INCENTIVES AND RECOGNITION FOR HEALTH CARE QUALITY.  The department[, in consultation with the Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency under Chapter 1002,] shall conduct a study on developing a recognition program to recognize exemplary health care facilities for superior quality of health care and make recommendations based on that study.

(2)  Strike page 130, line 9 through page 131, line 13 and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly.

(3)  Strike page 134, line 20 through page 135, line 2 and substitute the following:

(7)  Chapter 115; and

(8)  Chapter 1002.

(4)  On page 135, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following:

(d)  Section 848.001(7), Insurance Code, is repealed.

(5)  On page 136, line 14, strike "the board of directors of".