Bill Text: TX HB3531 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a system for monitoring prescriptions of certain drugs under the Medicaid program for children in foster care.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB3531 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3531-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3531 |
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relating to a system for monitoring prescriptions of certain drugs | ||
under the Medicaid program for children in foster care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 533.0161 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 533.0161. MONITORING OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG | ||
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN. (a) In this section, | ||
"psychotropic drug" has the meaning assigned by Section 261.111, | ||
Family Code. | ||
(b) The commission shall implement a system under which the | ||
commission will use Medicaid prescription drug data to monitor the | ||
prescribing of psychotropic drugs for children who are: | ||
(1) in the conservatorship of the Department of Family | ||
and Protective Services; and | ||
(2) enrolled in the STAR Health Medicaid managed care | ||
program. | ||
(c) The commission shall include as a component of the | ||
monitoring system required by this section a medical review of a | ||
prescription to which Subsection (b) applies when that review is | ||
appropriate. | ||
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 September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3531 was passed by the House on April | ||
26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3531 on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3531 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |