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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