1-1  By:  Berlanga (Senate Sponsor - Truan)                H.B. No. 2021
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 1995;
    1-3  May 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the certification of certain health organizations to
    1-9  contract with or employ certain health practitioners.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 5.01(b), Medical Practice Act (Article
   1-12  4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
   1-13  follows:
   1-14        (b)  The board shall, on a form and under rules adopted by
   1-15  the board, approve and certify any health organization to contract
   1-16  with or employ physicians licensed by the board upon application by
   1-17  the organization and presentation of satisfactory proof to the
   1-18  board that the organization:
   1-19              (1)  is a nonprofit corporation under the Texas
   1-20  Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-21  Statutes) and Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code;  and
   1-22              (2)  is organized and operated as a migrant, community,
   1-23  or homeless health center under the authority of and in compliance
   1-24  with 42 U.S.C. Section 254b, 254c <254(b) or (c)>, or 256, or as a
   1-25  federally qualified health center under 42 U.S.C.  Section
   1-26  1396d(l)(2)(B) <to contract with or employ physicians licensed by
   1-27  the board>.
   1-28        SECTION 2.  Article 4551n(a), Revised Statutes, is amended to
   1-29  read as follows:
   1-30        (a)  The Board shall, on a form and under rules adopted by
   1-31  the Board, approve and certify any health organization to contract
   1-32  with or employ dentists licensed by the Board on <upon> application
   1-33  by the organization and presentation of satisfactory proof to the
   1-34  Board that the organization:
   1-35              (1)  is a nonprofit corporation under the Texas
   1-36  Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's
   1-37  Texas Civil Statutes) and Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code
   1-38  of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 501); and
   1-39              (2)  is organized and operated as a migrant, community,
   1-40  or homeless health center under the authority of and in compliance
   1-41  with 42 U.S.C. Section 254b, 254c, or 256 or as a federally
   1-42  qualified health center under 42 U.S.C.  Section 1396d(l)(2)(B) <to
   1-43  contract with or employ dentists licensed by the Board>.
   1-44        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-45  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-46  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-47  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-48  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-49  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-50  passage, and it is so enacted.
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