1-1 By: Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 2602
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2001;
1-3 May 1, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; May 8, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
1-6 May 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2602 By: Moncrief
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to indigent health care.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 61.006(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (b) The minimum eligibility standards must incorporate a net
1-15 income eligibility level equal to 21 [25] percent of the federal
1-16 poverty level based on the federal Office of Management and Budget
1-17 poverty index.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 61.032(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-19 amended to read as follows:
1-20 (e) If the county and the provider disagree on the patient's
1-21 residence or eligibility, the county or the provider may submit the
1-22 matter to the department as provided by Section 61.004.
1-23 SECTION 3. Section 61.0395(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-24 amended to read as follows:
1-25 (b) The department may [shall] adopt rules governing the
1-26 distribution of state assistance under this chapter that establish
1-27 a maximum annual allocation for each county eligible for assistance
1-28 under this chapter in compliance with Subsection (a).
1-29 SECTION 4. Section 61.059(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-30 amended to read as follows:
1-31 (e) If the public hospital and the provider disagree on the
1-32 patient's residence or eligibility, the hospital or the provider
1-33 may submit the matter to the department as provided by Section
1-34 61.004.
1-35 SECTION 5. Sections 46.003(a) and (e), Health and Safety
1-36 Code, as added by Chapter 969, Acts of the 76th Legislature,
1-37 Regular Session, 1999, are amended to read as follows:
1-38 (a) The tertiary care account is an account in the state
1-39 treasury. Except as by Subsection (e), money [Money] in the
1-40 account may be appropriated only to the department for the purposes
1-41 of this chapter.
1-42 (e) For each fiscal year, five percent of the total amount
1-43 in the account shall be held in reserve and may be used only for
1-44 reimbursement of unpaid tertiary medical services and stabilization
1-45 services provided as a result of extraordinary emergencies
1-46 occurring during that year. Of the amount remaining:
1-47 (1) [,] not more than five percent may be used for the
1-48 costs of administering the account;
1-49 (2) five percent shall be allocated for the payment of
1-50 state assistance under Chapter 61; and
1-51 (3) the remaining amount shall be allocated as
1-52 provided by Subsection (f).
1-53 SECTION 6. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-54 read as follows:
1-55 (b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the
1-56 180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the
1-57 prize money shall be deposited to the credit of the Texas
1-58 Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital
1-59 account or the tertiary care facility account as follows:
1-60 (1) not more than $40 million in prize money each
1-61 biennium may be deposited to or appropriated from the Texas
1-62 Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital
1-63 account, which is an account in the general revenue fund; and
1-64 (2) all prize money subject to this section in excess
2-1 of $40 million each biennium shall be deposited in the tertiary
2-2 care facility account. Money deposited in the tertiary care
2-3 facility account may only be appropriated to the department for
2-4 purposes specified in Chapter 46 or 61, Health and Safety Code.
2-5 SECTION 7. Section 61.006(b-2), Health and Safety Code, is
2-6 repealed.
2-7 SECTION 8. (a) The changes in law made by this Act to
2-8 Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, take effect September 1, 2001.
2-9 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (a) of this section,
2-10 this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of
2-11 two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by
2-12 Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not
2-13 receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes
2-14 effect on the 91st day after the last day of the legislative
2-15 session.
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