evidence_text: Senator Outman offered the following amendment:
  
  1. Amend page 476, following line 12, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 1619. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 the department shall utilize existing resources to implement improved practices for oversight of service level agreements within the Medicaid pharmacy benefit manager contract.
  
  (2) The department must create a specific service level agreement monitoring matrix that details the monitoring method, frequency, responsible party, and required documentation within the Medicaid pharmacy benefit manager contract. By March 1, the department shall submit the matrix to the standard report recipients.
  
  (3) The department must adopt standard operating procedure for oversight of the Medicaid pharmacy benefit manager contract to ensure department staff are conducting contract reviews in a consistent manner by implementing mandatory threshold determinations on vendor explanations and a decision tree indicating how contract exceptions are reviewed.
  
  (4) The department is prohibited from sole reliance on self-assertion for compliance with service level agreement for contract monitoring for the Medicaid pharmacy benefit manager contract. Each quarter the department shall select a risk‑based data sample of a random service level agreement from the Medicaid pharmacy benefit manager’s system, raw files or department data to independently reconstruct and verify a self-asserted result.”.
  
  The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.