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.