Bill Text: TX HB1260 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to creation by rule of the Department of Aging and Disability Services of a schedule of support services a state supported living center may provide and procedures for establishing applicable fees for those services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1260 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1260-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: King of Taylor, Crownover | H.B. No. 1260 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1260: | |||
| By: Raymond | C.S.H.B. No. 1260 | ||
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| relating to creation by rule of the Department of Aging and | ||
| Disability Services 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 department 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 established by | ||
| rule of the executive commissioner. | ||
| (d) In creating a schedule of fees, the department 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 department under | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2016, 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 Department | ||
| of Aging and Disability Services 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, 2015. | ||
