Bill Text: TX HB2004 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the dismissal of certain actions relating to Medicaid fraud.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-21 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2004-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2004 | ||
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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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2004 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 6, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2004 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 8, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
