Bill Text: TX HB2004 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the dismissal of certain actions relating to Medicaid fraud.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-21 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2004-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the dismissal of certain actions relating to Medicaid fraud.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-21 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2004-Comm_Sub.html
By: Leach, Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Fallon) | H.B. No. 2004 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2019; | ||
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 3, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 3, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the dismissal of certain actions relating to Medicaid | ||
fraud. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 36.102, Human Resources | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 36.102. INITIATION OF ACTION; CONSENT REQUIRED FOR | ||
DISMISSAL. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 36.102(e), Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) An action under this subchapter may be dismissed [ |
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only if the court and the attorney general consent in writing to the | ||
dismissal and state their reasons for consenting. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an action brought on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
action brought before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law applicable to the action immediately before the effective | ||
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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