Bill Text: TX SB1904 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a select interim committee to undertake a comprehensive review of the provision of public health care services in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1904 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1904-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 1904 | |
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| relating to the creation of a select interim committee to undertake | ||
| a comprehensive review of the provision of public health care | ||
| services in this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. CREATION OF SELECT INTERIM COMMITTEE. (a) A | ||
| select interim committee is created to study and review statutes | ||
| and regulations, including model laws and regulations, related to | ||
| the provision of health care services in this state. | ||
| (b) The committee shall convene at the call of the presiding | ||
| officer. | ||
| (c) The committee has all other powers and duties provided | ||
| to a special or select committee by the rules of the senate, | ||
| Subchapter B, Chapter 301, Government Code, and policies of the | ||
| senate committee on administration. | ||
| SECTION 2. INTERIM STUDY REGARDING THE PROVISION OF HEALTH | ||
| CARE SERVICES. (a) The committee created by Section 1 of this Act | ||
| shall study the concept of providing health insurance coverage for | ||
| acute care and home health care services for Medicaid recipients in | ||
| the private insurance market through a capitated or block grant | ||
| funding system and, with respect to a program based on that concept | ||
| or other similar program: | ||
| (1) the requirements to obtain any waiver necessary to | ||
| implement and administer the program; | ||
| (2) the cost of implementing and administering the | ||
| program; | ||
| (3) the feasibility of implementing and administering | ||
| a cost-sharing and sliding scale subsidy program for the Medicaid | ||
| recipients served by the program; | ||
| (4) the implementation and administration of health | ||
| savings accounts for the Medicaid recipients served by the program; | ||
| (5) minimum coverage requirements; | ||
| (6) eligibility requirements, including asset test | ||
| requirements; | ||
| (7) options for programs to reinsure participating | ||
| health benefit plan issuers; and | ||
| (8) any other issue related to the feasibility, | ||
| implementation, and administration of the program. | ||
| (b) The committee created by Section 1 of this Act shall | ||
| also study: | ||
| (1) health care models and programs to address health | ||
| care spending in this state related to the Medicaid program, | ||
| veterans affairs, hospital districts, charity care, uncompensated | ||
| care, private pay insurance, self-insurance, and other health care | ||
| spending; | ||
| (2) long-term and short-term models and programs with | ||
| proven cost savings, including cost savings for private health care | ||
| and other health care systems, criminal justice systems, child | ||
| welfare systems, and other social and welfare services provided by | ||
| the federal government or this state; and | ||
| (3) health care models and programs that promote | ||
| coordinated collaboration between local and regional communities | ||
| to serve low-income and indigent individuals by providing | ||
| wraparound services resulting in cost-sharing, improved outcomes, | ||
| and a reduction in administrative costs. | ||
| SECTION 3. TEXAS HEALTH CARE ADVISORY COUNCIL. (a) The | ||
| committee established under Section 1 of this Act shall establish | ||
| the Texas Health Care Advisory Council to advise the committee as | ||
| requested on issues related to the subject matter under study and | ||
| review in accordance with this Act. | ||
| (b) The council authorized by Subsection (a) of this section | ||
| is composed of a uniform number of individual members who represent | ||
| the following interests: | ||
| (1) the managed care organization community; | ||
| (2) primary care physicians; | ||
| (3) local mental health authorities; | ||
| (4) hospitals; | ||
| (5) mental health professionals; | ||
| (6) the nursing community; | ||
| (7) health care charity organizations; | ||
| (8) the intellectual and developmental disability | ||
| community; | ||
| (9) the dental community; | ||
| (10) the law enforcement community; and | ||
| (11) the judicial community. | ||
| (c) In addition to the members described by Subsection (b) | ||
| of this section, the Texas Health Care Advisory Council must | ||
| include a member appointed by the executive commissioner of the | ||
| Health and Human Services Commission to represent the interests of | ||
| the commission. | ||
| SECTION 4. COMMITTEE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. (a) | ||
| Not later than January 15, 2017, the committee shall report the | ||
| committee's findings and recommendations to the lieutenant | ||
| governor and the governor. The committee shall include in its | ||
| recommendations specific statutory and regulatory changes that | ||
| appear necessary from the results of the committee's study under | ||
| Section 2 of this Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than the 60th day after the effective date of | ||
| this Act, the lieutenant governor shall appoint the members of the | ||
| committee created under Section 1 of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. ABOLITION OF COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL. The | ||
| committee and the council are abolished and this Act expires | ||
| January 20, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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. | ||
