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
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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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