1-1 By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 2866
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Human
1-4 Services; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to assistance funds for mandatory health care services
1-9 provided in certain counties.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 61.037(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (e) A county that provides mandatory health care services to
1-14 its eligible residents through a hospital established by a board of
1-15 managers jointly appointed by a county and a municipality under
1-16 Section 265.011 is eligible for state assistance if:
1-17 (1) the county spends in a state fiscal year at least
1-18 10 percent of the county general revenue levy for the year to
1-19 provide mandatory health care services to its eligible county
1-20 residents who qualify for assistance under Section 61.052 [61.006];
1-21 and
1-22 (2) the county complies with the requirements of this
1-23 subchapter.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 61.038(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-25 amended to read as follows:
1-26 (a) If the department determines that a county is eligible
1-27 for assistance, the department shall distribute funds appropriated
1-28 to the department from the indigent health care assistance fund or
1-29 any other available fund to the county to assist the county in
1-30 providing mandatory health care services to its eligible county
1-31 residents who qualify for assistance as described by Section 61.037
1-32 [under Section 61.006].
1-33 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-34 to state assistance under Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, as
1-35 amended by this Act, for mandatory health care services that are
1-36 delivered on or after January 1, 2000. State assistance for
1-37 mandatory health care services that are delivered before January 1,
1-38 2000, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before that
1-39 date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-40 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-41 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-45 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-46 passage, and it is so enacted.
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