Amend CSSB 277 (house committee printing) as follows:

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

SECTION 1.___.  (a) The Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency is abolished.

(b)  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.

(c)  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.

(d)  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.

(e)  The following provisions are repealed:

(1)  Chapter 1002, Health and Safety Code, as amended by SB 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015; and

(2)  Section 848.001(7), Insurance Code.

(2)  Strike page 42, line 11 through page 43, line 15 and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly.

(3)  Strike page 46, line 24 through page 47, line 7 and substitute the following:

(6)  Subchapter B, Chapter 92; and

(7)  Chapter 115.