Bill Text: TX HB3531 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Strama, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) | H.B. No. 3531 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; | ||
May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health | ||
and Human Services; May 13, 2011, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3531 | By: Nelson |
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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. | ||
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