By:  Uher                                             H.B. No. 1580
       73R5999 DLF-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to payment for services provided by The University of
    1-3  Texas M. D.  Anderson Cancer Center to eligible residents of
    1-4  certain hospital districts.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 73, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 73.112 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 73.112.  PAYMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO ELIGIBLE
    1-9  RESIDENTS OF CERTAIN HOSPITAL DISTRICTS.  (a)  This section applies
   1-10  only to a hospital district located, in whole or in part, in a
   1-11  county having a population of at least 2.1 million.
   1-12        (b)  A hospital district is liable for health care services
   1-13  provided by the institution or its substations to a resident of the
   1-14  district who meets the district's income and resource requirements
   1-15  for eligibility for medical and hospital care furnished by the
   1-16  district.
   1-17        (c)  The hospital district shall reimburse the institution an
   1-18  amount equal to the full cost of all health care services provided
   1-19  to the eligible resident by the institution or its substations.
   1-20        (d)  The president shall require a hospital district to
   1-21  determine the eligibility of a resident of that district for
   1-22  medical and hospital care furnished by the district before the
   1-23  person is admitted to the institution.  The president may waive the
   1-24  application of this subsection in an emergency.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to health care services
    2-2  provided on or after the effective date of this Act.  Health care
    2-3  services provided before the effective date of this Act are
    2-4  governed by the law in effect on the date the services are provided
    2-5  and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.