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By Kuempel H.B. No. 2556
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for state assistance under the Indigent
1-3 Health Care & Treatment Act for a hospital managed jointly by a
1-4 city and county.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 61.037, Health and Safety Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), [or] (d) or (e),
1-9 to be eligible for state assistance, a county must:
1-10 (1) spend in a state fiscal year at least 10 percent
1-11 of the county general revenue levy for that year to provide
1-12 mandatory health care services to its eligible county residents who
1-13 qualify for assistance under Section 61.006; and
1-14 (2) notify the department, not later than the seventh
1-15 day after the date on which the county reaches the expenditure
1-16 level, that the county has spent at least eight percent of the
1-17 applicable county general revenue levy for that year to provide
1-18 mandatory health care services to its eligible county residents who
1-19 qualify for assistance under Section 61.006.
1-20 (c) If a county and a health care provider signed a contract
1-21 on or before January 1, 1985, under which the provider agrees to
1-22 furnish a certain level of health care services to indigent
1-23 persons, the value of services furnished in a state fiscal year
1-24 under the contract is included as part of the computation of a the
2-1 hospital district. In determining eligibility for state assistance,
2-2 that county shall consider only the county general revenue levy
2-3 resulting from the property located outside the hospital district.
2-4 A county is eligible for state assistance if:
2-5 (1) the county spends in a state fiscal year at least
2-6 10 percent of the county general revenue levy for that year
2-7 resulting from the property located outside the hospital district
2-8 to provide mandatory health care services to its eligible county
2-9 residents who qualify for assistance under Section 61.006; and
2-10 (2) the county complies with the other requirements of
2-11 this subchapter.
2-12 (e) For a hospital established under Health & Safety Code
2-13 265.011, which a county and a municipality jointly appoint a board
2-14 of managers for the hospital, the county is eligible for state
2-15 assistance if the county spends in a state fiscal year at least 10
2-16 percent of the county general revenue levy for the year to provide
2-17 mandatory health care services to its eligible county residents who
2-18 qualify for assistance under Section 61.006 and the county complies
2-19 with the requirements of this subchapter.
2-20 [(e)] (f) If a county anticipates that it will reach the 10
2-21 percent expenditure level, the county must notify the department as
2-22 soon as possible before the anticipated date on which the county
2-23 will reach the level.
2-24 [(f)] (g) The county must give the department all necessary
2-25 information so that the department can determine if the county
2-26 meets the requirements of Subsection (b) or (d).
2-27 [(g)] (h) Expired.
2-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-4 passage, and it is so enacted.