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==State False Claims Acts==
As of 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia have false-claims laws modeled on the federal statute to protect their publicly funded programs from fraud by including [[qui tam]] provisions, which enables them to recover money at state level.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.taf.org/state-laws|title=STATE LAWS|website=TAF|language=en|access-date=2020-01-22}}</ref><ref>James F. Barger Jr., Pamela H. Bucy, Melinda M. Eubanks, Marc A. Raspanti, "[https://ssrn.com/abstract=930181 States, Statutes, and Fraud: An Empirical Study of Emerging State False Claims Acts]" ''[[Tulane Law Review]]'' (2005).</ref> Some of these state False Claims Act statutes provide similar protections to those of the federal law, while others limit recovery to claims of fraud related to the [[Medicaid]] program.<ref name=":2" />

The [[California False Claims Act]] was enacted in 1987, but lay relatively dormant until the early 1990s, when public entities, frustrated by what they viewed as a barrage of unjustified and unmeritorious claims, began to employ the False Claims Act as a defensive measure.<ref>James W. Taylor and Brian Taugher [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25754215 The California False Claims Act] Public Contract Law Journal Vol. 25, No. 2, [State and Local Government] (Winter 1996), pp. 315-333</ref>

In 1995, the State of Texas passed the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (TMFPA), which specifically aims at combating fraud against the Texas Medicaid Program, which provides healthcare and prescription drug coverage to low-income individuals.<ref>{{cite web |title=Federal and State False Claims Acts and Protections |url=https://www.texashealth.org/assets/documents/system/vendor_compliance/federal-and-state-false-claims-acts-and-protections-122917.pdf |website=www.texashealth.org |access-date=11 January 2019 |archive-date=15 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115182132/https://www.texashealth.org/assets/documents/system/vendor_compliance/federal-and-state-false-claims-acts-and-protections-122917.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Texas law enacts state qui tam provisions that allow individuals to report fraud and initiate action against violations of the TMFPA, imposes consequences for noncompliance and includes whistleblower protections.<ref>{{cite web |title=Texas Whistleblower Act |url=https://www.tml.org/legal_pdf/2006Whistleblower.pdf |website=Texas Municipal League |access-date=15 January 2019 |archive-date=15 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115181920/https://www.tml.org/legal_pdf/2006Whistleblower.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>