1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to assistance funds for mandatory health care services
1-3 provided in certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.037(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) A county that provides mandatory health care services to
1-8 its eligible residents through a hospital established by a board of
1-9 managers jointly appointed by a county and a municipality under
1-10 Section 265.011 is eligible for state assistance if:
1-11 (1) the county spends in a state fiscal year at least
1-12 10 percent of the county general revenue levy for the year to
1-13 provide mandatory health care services to its eligible county
1-14 residents who qualify for assistance under Section 61.052 [61.006];
1-15 and
1-16 (2) the county complies with the requirements of this
1-17 subchapter.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 61.038(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-19 amended to read as follows:
1-20 (a) If the department determines that a county is eligible
1-21 for assistance, the department shall distribute funds appropriated
1-22 to the department from the indigent health care assistance fund or
1-23 any other available fund to the county to assist the county in
1-24 providing mandatory health care services to its eligible county
2-1 residents who qualify for assistance as described by Section 61.037
2-2 [under Section 61.006].
2-3 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2-4 to state assistance under Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, as
2-5 amended by this Act, for mandatory health care services that are
2-6 delivered on or after January 1, 2000. State assistance for
2-7 mandatory health care services that are delivered before January 1,
2-8 2000, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before that
2-9 date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2866 was passed by the House on April
16, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 4, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2866 was passed by the Senate on May
13, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor