By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1138
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to assistance funds for mandatory health care services
1-2 provided in certain counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 61.037, Health and Safety
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (e) A county that provides mandatory health care services to
1-7 its eligible residents through a hospital established by a board of
1-8 managers jointly appointed by a county and a municipality under
1-9 Section 265.011 is eligible for state assistance if:
1-10 (1) the county spends in a state fiscal year at least
1-11 10 percent of the county general revenue levy for the year to
1-12 provide mandatory health care services to its eligible county
1-13 residents who qualify for assistance under Section 61.052 [61.006];
1-14 and
1-15 (2) the county complies with the requirements of this
1-16 subchapter.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 61.038, Health and Safety
1-18 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (a) If the department determines that a county is eligible
1-20 for assistance, the department shall distribute funds appropriated
1-21 to the department from the indigent health care assistance fund or
1-22 any other available fund to the county to assist the county in
1-23 providing mandatory health care services to its eligible county
1-24 residents who qualify for assistance as described by Section
2-1 61.037 [under Section 61.006].
2-2 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2-3 to state assistance under Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, as
2-4 amended by this Act, for mandatory health care services that are
2-5 delivered on or after January 1, 2000. State assistance for
2-6 mandatory health care services that are delivered before January 1,
2-7 2000, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before that
2-8 date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.