Bill Text: TX HB3409 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of services and resources to certain individuals by a state supported living center and to the creation of a schedule of support services a state supported living center may provide and procedures for establishing applicable fees for those services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3409 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3409-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of services and resources to certain individuals by a state supported living center and to the creation of a schedule of support services a state supported living center may provide and procedures for establishing applicable fees for those services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3409 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3409-Introduced.html
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By: Lambert | H.B. No. 3409 |
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relating to creation of a schedule of support services a state | ||
supported living center may provide and procedures for establishing | ||
applicable fees for those services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.080, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish: | ||
(1) a list of services a state supported living center | ||
may provide under a contract described by Subsection (a); and | ||
(2) procedures for the commission to create, maintain, | ||
and amend as needed a schedule of fees that a state supported living | ||
center may charge for a service included in the list described by | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
(d) In creating a schedule of fees, the commission shall: | ||
(1) use the reimbursement rate for the applicable | ||
service under the Medicaid program; or | ||
(2) modify that rate with a written justification for | ||
the modification and after holding a public hearing on the issue of | ||
the modification. | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), a state supported | ||
living center, based on negotiations between the center and a | ||
managed care organization, as defined by Section 533.001, | ||
Government Code, may charge a fee for a service other than the fee | ||
provided by the schedule of fees created by the commission under | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2018, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt the rules listing services a state supported living center | ||
may provide under a contract and the procedures for the commission | ||
to create the schedule of fees for those services, as required by | ||
Section 161.080, Human Resources Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2017. |