88R14486 MPF-D
 
  By: Alvarado S.B. No. 1966
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a grant program for school-based health care
  initiatives established to serve certain underserved students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 531.0606 to read as follows:
         Sec. 531.0606.  SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE GRANT PROGRAM. (a)
  In this section, "program" means the school-based health care grant
  program established under this section.
         (b)  Using legislative appropriations available for that
  purpose, the commission shall establish and administer a grant
  program for health care organizations to implement, maintain, and
  expand a school-based health care initiative for underserved
  students and to provide those students with preventative, primary,
  and behavioral health care, including:
               (1)  medical services;
               (2)  dental services;
               (3)  therapeutic services; and
               (4)  nonmedical services, such as nutritional
  services.
         (c)  The commission shall establish grant application
  procedures, criteria for evaluating applications and awarding
  grants, and procedures for monitoring the use of grants awarded
  under the program and ensuring compliance with any condition of a
  grant awarded under the program.
         (d)  A grant recipient must use grant money to establish a
  school-based health care initiative for a school district that has
  a student population with at least 50 percent of its students who:
               (1)  are uninsured or underinsured; or
               (2)  receive free or reduced-price lunches.
         (e)  The commission may award a grant under the program only
  in accordance with a contract between the commission and a grant
  recipient.  The contract must include provisions granting the
  commission sufficient control over the money awarded to ensure the
  public purpose of providing health care services to underserved
  students is accomplished and this state receives the return
  benefit.
         SECTION 2.  The Health and Human Services Commission is
  required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
  legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If
  the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
  purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a
  provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.