By: Nelson S.B. No. 1102
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the eligibility to receive indigent health care
1-2 benefits.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 61.008 (a) of the Health and Safety Code
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 61.008. Eligibility Rules. (a) The department by rule
1-7 shall provide that in determining eligibility:
1-8 (1) a county may not consider the value of the
1-9 applicant's homestead;
1-10 (2) a county must consider the equity value of a car
1-11 that is in excess of the amount exempted under department
1-12 guidelines as a resource;
1-13 (3) a county must subtract the work-related and child
1-14 care expense allowance allowed under department guidelines;
1-15 (4) a county must consider as a resource real property
1-16 other than a homestead and, except as provided by Subsection (b),
1-17 must count that property in determining eligibility; <and>
1-18 (5) if an applicant transferred title to real property
1-19 for less than market value to become eligible for assistance under
1-20 this chapter, the county may not credit toward eligibility for
1-21 state assistance an expenditure for that applicant made during a
1-22 two-year period beginning on the date on which the property is
1-23 transferred; and<.>
2-1 (6) a county must consider all education assistance
2-2 payments as unearned income.
2-3 (b) A county may disregard the applicant's real property if
2-4 the applicant agrees to an enforceable obligation to reimburse the
2-5 county for all or part of the benefits received under this chapter.
2-6 The county and the applicant may negotiate the terms of the
2-7 obligation.
2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.