74R5525 JMM-D
By Berlanga H.B. No. 2021
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the certification of certain health organizations to
1-3 contract with or employ certain health practitioners.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5.01(b), Medical Practice Act (Article
1-6 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (b) The board shall, on a form and under rules adopted by
1-9 the board, approve and certify any health organization to contract
1-10 with or employ physicians licensed by the board upon application by
1-11 the organization and presentation of satisfactory proof to the
1-12 board that the organization:
1-13 (1) is a nonprofit corporation under the Texas
1-14 Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-15 Statutes) and Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code; and
1-16 (2) is organized and operated as a migrant, community,
1-17 or homeless health center under the authority of and in compliance
1-18 with 42 U.S.C. Section 254b, 254c <254(b) or (c)>, or 256, or as a
1-19 federally qualified health center under 42 U.S.C. Section
1-20 1396d(l)(2)(B) <to contract with or employ physicians licensed by
1-21 the board>.
1-22 SECTION 2. Article 4551n(a), Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 (a) The Board shall, on a form and under rules adopted by
2-1 the Board, approve and certify any health organization to contract
2-2 with or employ dentists licensed by the Board on <upon> application
2-3 by the organization and presentation of satisfactory proof to the
2-4 Board that the organization:
2-5 (1) is a nonprofit corporation under the Texas
2-6 Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's
2-7 Texas Civil Statutes) and Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code
2-8 of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 501); and
2-9 (2) is organized and operated as a migrant, community,
2-10 or homeless health center under the authority of and in compliance
2-11 with 42 U.S.C. Section 254b, 254c, or 256 or as a federally
2-12 qualified health center under 42 U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B) <to
2-13 contract with or employ dentists licensed by the Board>.
2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.