By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1096
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the services provided under the Indigent Health Care
    1-2  and Treatment Act.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 61.028, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 61.028.  Mandatory Health Care Services.  (a)  A county
    1-7  shall, in accordance with department rules adopted under Section
    1-8  61.006, provide:
    1-9              (1)  inpatient and outpatient hospital services;
   1-10              (2)  rural health clinics;
   1-11              (3)  laboratory and X-ray services;
   1-12              (4)  family planning services;
   1-13              (5)  physician services;
   1-14              (6)  payment for not more than three prescription drugs
   1-15  a month; and
   1-16              (7)  skilled nursing facility services, regardless of a
   1-17  patient's age.
   1-18        (b)  In addition to the services mandated in Subsection (a),
   1-19  a county may provide, upon approval of the department, these
   1-20  optional health care services that shall be credited toward
   1-21  eligibility for state assistance:
   1-22              (1)  primary and preventive services that meet the
   1-23  health care needs of the community, such as immunizations, medical
    2-1  screenings, dental health care, and annual physical examinations;
    2-2  and
    2-3              (2)  medically necessary services that the county
    2-4  determines to be cost effective for the care of the resident,
    2-5  including but not limited to the following:
    2-6                    (A)  ambulatory surgical center services;
    2-7                    (B)  home and community health care services; and
    2-8                    (C)  diabetic and colostomy medical supplies and
    2-9  equipment.
   2-10        (c)  A county may credit toward eligibility for state
   2-11  assistance premium payments made under Section 157.006, Local
   2-12  Government Code.
   2-13        (d)  The county may provide additional health care services
   2-14  other than those specified in subsections (a) and (b), but may not
   2-15  credit the assistance toward eligibility for state assistance.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.