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House Bill 2470 |
House Author: Delisi |
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Effective: 9-1-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Nelson |
House Bill 2470 amends provisions of the Health and Safety Code and Transportation Code relating to the financing of emergency medical services and trauma facility care and to continuing the driver responsibility program. The bill continues current financing provisions relating to emergency medical services and trauma facilities that were scheduled to expire in 2007. It requires the commissioner of the Department of State Health Services to reserve in each fiscal year $500,000 of the money appropriated to the designated trauma facility and emergency medical services account for extraordinary emergencies, rather than maintaining a total reserve in that amount. Money appropriated to the account but not spent in one fiscal year is required to be transferred to the reserve for use during the following fiscal year. House Bill 2470 provides that certain unexpended funds disbursed during a fiscal year to a trauma service area regional advisory council for the operation of the 22 trauma service areas and for distribution to local emergency medical services may be retained for use in the following fiscal year and requires unexpended funds at the end of the second fiscal year to be returned to the Department of State Health Services. The bill changes requirements relating to an undesignated facility's pursuit of designation and qualification for funds to offset uncompensated trauma care administered by the facility.
House Bill 2470 requires that a citation issued for an offense under a traffic law of this state include a notice of a potential surcharge under the driver responsibility program and extends the period of time over which a surcharge may be paid in installments.