Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Burnam H.B. No. 2853 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to restrictions on providing transportation for certain 1-3 health care purposes. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 161.091, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (g) This section shall not be construed to prohibit 1-8 providing transportation for health care services to adult patients 1-9 as a community service if the transportation service is valued at 1-10 not more than $20 per one-way trip, is not provided by a mental 1-11 health provider, and does not involve transportation to a mental 1-12 health facility. 1-13 (h) For the purpose of Subsection (g), "health care 1-14 services" means: 1-15 (1) services routinely provided in a hospital-based 1-16 outpatient clinic; or 1-17 (2) health-related community education services. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.