Amend CSHB 7 by adding the following appropriately numbered
article:
ARTICLE ____. RESTORATION OF CERTAIN INSURANCE
PROGRAM FUNDING
SECTION __.01. Section 20.02, Chapter 1325, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 20.02. (a) [The comptroller shall establish the Texas
mobility fund debt service account as a dedicated account within
the general revenue fund.
[(b)] Notwithstanding Sections 780.002(b) and (c)
[780.002(a) and (b)], Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act,
of the money allocated to the undedicated portion of the general
revenue fund by Section 780.002(b) [780.002(a)], Health and Safety
Code, as added by this Act, other than money that may only be
appropriated to the Department of Public Safety, in state fiscal
years [year] 2004 and 2005 the comptroller shall deposit that money
to the credit of the Texas mobility fund instead of to the credit of
the general revenue fund [debt service account, which is subject to
the provisions of Subsection (d)].
(b) [(c)] Notwithstanding Section 542.4031(g)(1),
Transportation Code, as added by this Act, of the money allocated to
the undedicated portion of the general revenue fund in Section
542.4031(g)(1), Transportation Code, in state fiscal years [year]
2004 and 2005 the comptroller shall deposit that money to the credit
of the Texas mobility fund instead of to the credit of the general
revenue fund [debt service account, which is subject to the
provisions of Subsection (d)].
(c) [(d) Funds deposited to the Texas mobility fund debt
service account pursuant to Subsections (b) and (c) may be
transferred to the Texas mobility fund upon certification by the
Texas Transportation Commission to the comptroller that a payment
is due under an obligation pursuant to Section 49-k, Article 3,
Texas Constitution. Funds in the Texas mobility fund debt service
account are not appropriated in the state fiscal year ending August
31, 2004.
[(e)] Notwithstanding Sections 521.058, 521.313(c),
521.3466(e), 521.427, 522.029(i), 524.051(c), 548.508, 644.153(i),
and 724.046(c), Transportation Code, as added by this Act, to the
extent that those sections allocate funds to the Texas mobility
fund, in state fiscal years [year] 2004 and 2005 the comptroller
shall deposit those funds to the credit of the general revenue fund
instead of to the credit of the Texas mobility fund.
SECTION __.02. (a) An amount of money estimated to be
$235,100,000 deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund in
state fiscal year 2005 under Section 20.02(c), Chapter 1325, Acts
of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, as amended by this
Act, is appropriated out of the general revenue fund for the state
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, to replace an equal
amount of federal fiscal relief funds utilized to certify general
revenue appropriations made by House Bill No. 1, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003 (the General Appropriations
Act). The federal fiscal relief funds so replaced are appropriated
to the comptroller of public accounts for the state fiscal biennium
beginning September 1, 2003, for the purposes described by Section
11.28, Article IX, House Bill No. 1, Acts of the 78th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2003 (the General Appropriations Act), as amended
by this Act.
SECTION __.03. Section 62.151, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) The child health plan must provide covered dental
benefits that include at least the covered preventive dental
benefits described by the recommended benefits package described
for a state-designed child health plan by the Texas House of
Representatives Committee on Public Health "CHIP" Interim Report to
the Seventy-Sixth Texas Legislature dated December, 1998, and the
Senate Interim Committee on Children's Health Insurance Report to
the Seventy-Sixth Texas Legislature dated December 1, 1998.
SECTION __.04. Section 11.28, Article IX, House Bill No. 1,
Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003 (the General
Appropriations Act) is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 11.28. Appropriation of State Fiscal Relief Federal
Funds.
(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this Act, based
upon the passage of federal legislation that provides federal funds
for the purpose of state fiscal relief, such funds are
appropriated, after the implementation of Section 11.15,
Contingency Appropriation Reduction and Contingency Appropriation,
to the Comptroller of Public Accounts in the fiscal year in which
the funds are received for the purpose of transferring funds to
state agencies for state fiscal relief, as provided by subsection
(b) of this section.
(b) The Legislative Budget Board and the Governor shall
develop a plan that outlines the transfers of these funds, by fiscal
year, agency, and strategy for the purpose of state fiscal relief.
It is a priority of the Legislature that the plan of transfers will
provide funding as follows:
(1) Restoration of dental eligibility criteria and
benefits coverage under the state child health plan (CHIP) to
fiscal year 2003 levels.
(2) [(1)] One-quarter of the amounts received for
state fiscal relief may be used for partial restoration of
reimbursement rates assumed in Article II of this Act to fiscal year
2003 levels.
(3) [(2)] Restoration of the hours assumed in
Community Care Programs at the Department of Human Services to
fiscal year 2003.
(4) [(3)] Such funds shall also be used for the items
shown below in bill pattern order:
Texas Department of Health:
A.3.1, HIV & STD Education & Services
D.2.1, Community Health Services
Health and Human Services Commission:
B.2.3, Premiums: Pregnant Women (from 158%
of the Federal Poverty Level to 185% of the Federal Poverty Level)
B.2.4, Premiums: Children/Medically Needy
(for Medically Needy)
B.2.7, Cost Reimbursed Services (for
Graduate Medical Education)
Department of Human Services:
A.1.1, Community Care - State
Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation
C.1.1, MR Community Services
Department of Protective and Regulatory Services:
A.1.7, At-Risk Prevention Services
(5) [(4)] Texas B-On-Time Loan Program.