Texas Health and Safety Code

§ 12.134 — DISPUTES RELATING TO INFORMATION COLLECTED

HS § 12.134Title 2. HEALTH · Part A. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES · Ch. 12. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT OF · Art. J. TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROCEEDS

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(a)Subject to the approval of the advisory committee, the executive commissioner shall adopt rules under which a political subdivision or agency of this state may dispute information submitted by a political subdivision under Section 12.133.

(b)The rules may provide for:

(1)an audit of the political subdivision that submitted the disputed information;

(2)payment of the costs of the audit by the party to the dispute who does not prevail in the dispute;

(3)a deadline for filing a dispute for a particular year; and

(4)a reasonable monetary penalty to be applied to a subsequent annual distribution made to a political subdivision that is found to have overstated unreimbursed health care expenditures in the information submitted under Section 12.133.

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Legislative history

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0042, eff. April 2, 2015.