1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 1102
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
1-4 April 13, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; April 13, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Zaffirini x
1-9 Ellis x
1-10 Madla x
1-11 Moncrief x
1-12 Nelson x
1-13 Patterson x
1-14 Shelley x
1-15 Truan x
1-16 Wentworth x
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the eligibility to receive indigent health care
1-20 benefits.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 61.008, Health and Safety
1-23 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-24 (a) The department by rule shall provide that in determining
1-25 eligibility:
1-26 (1) a county may not consider the value of the
1-27 applicant's homestead;
1-28 (2) a county must consider the equity value of a car
1-29 that is in excess of the amount exempted under department
1-30 guidelines as a resource;
1-31 (3) a county must subtract the work-related and child
1-32 care expense allowance allowed under department guidelines;
1-33 (4) a county must consider as a resource real property
1-34 other than a homestead and, except as provided by Subsection (b),
1-35 must count that property in determining eligibility; <and>
1-36 (5) if an applicant transferred title to real property
1-37 for less than market value to become eligible for assistance under
1-38 this chapter, the county may not credit toward eligibility for
1-39 state assistance an expenditure for that applicant made during a
1-40 two-year period beginning on the date on which the property is
1-41 transferred; and
1-42 (6) a county must consider all educational assistance
1-43 payments as unearned income.
1-44 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-51 Austin,
1-52 Texas
1-53 April 13, 1993
1-54 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-55 President of the Senate
1-56 Sir:
1-57 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-58 referred S.B. No. 1102, have had the same under consideration, and
1-59 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-60 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-61 Zaffirini,
1-62 Chair
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1-64 WITNESSES
1-65 FOR AGAINST ON
1-66 ___________________________________________________________________
1-67 Name: Bonnie L. Magers x
1-68 Representing: TX Dept of Human Services
2-1 City: Austin
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2-3 Name: Bing Burton x x
2-4 Representing: Denton County Health Dept.
2-5 City: Denton
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