Texas § HS.12.134 - DISPUTES RELATING TO INFORMATION COLLECTED
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§ HS.12.134. DISPUTES RELATING TO INFORMATION COLLECTED
DISPUTES RELATING TO INFORMATION COLLECTED. (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 . (c) The monetary penalty applied under Subsection (b)(4) may not exceed 10 percent of the amount of the overstatement of unreimbursed health care costs. (d) A dispute under this section is a contested case for purposes of Chapter 2001 , Government Code. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 753, Sec. 2.01, eff. Aug. 30, 1999. Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219 ), Sec. 3.0042, eff. April 2, 2015.
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