Bill Text: TX HB1917 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to contract requirements for prescription drug benefits provided by Medicaid managed care organizations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-15)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB1917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1917-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to contract requirements for prescription drug benefits provided by Medicaid managed care organizations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-15)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB1917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1917-Comm_Sub.html
By: Raymond, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) | H.B. No. 1917 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 10, 2017, rereferred to Committee on Health & Human | ||
Services; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 6, Nays 1, 1 present not voting; May 17, 2017, sent to | ||
printer.) | ||
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relating to contract requirements for prescription drug benefits | ||
provided by Medicaid managed care organizations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 533.005(a-1), Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The requirements imposed by Subsections (a)(23)(A), | ||
(B), and (C) do not apply, and may not be enforced, on and after | ||
August 31, 2023 [ |
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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. 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. | ||
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