1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1138
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
1-4 April 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
1-5 Nays 0; April 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. Subsection (e), Section 61.037, Health and Safety
1-12 Code, is 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. Subsection (a), Section 61.038, Health and Safety
1-25 Code, is 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
1-32 61.037 [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.
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