Bill Text: TX HB1661 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid billing for the services of substitute dentists.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1661 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1661-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1661 | ||
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| relating to Medicaid billing for the services of substitute | ||
| dentists. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 32.076 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.076. SUBSTITUTE DENTISTS. To the extent allowed by | ||
| federal law, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt rules ensuring that the same | ||
| standards applying to a physician who bills the medical assistance | ||
| program for services provided by a substitute physician apply also | ||
| to a dentist who bills the medical assistance program for services | ||
| provided by a substitute dentist. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to implement | ||
| the changes in law made by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1661 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1661 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
