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Amend CSHB 1924 (Senate committee printing) by striking all
below the enacting clause and substituting the following:
SECTION 1. Section 162.001, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (c-1), (c-2), and (c-3) to read as follows:
(c-1) The board shall certify a health organization to
contract with or employ physicians licensed by the board if the
organization:
(1) is a hospital district:
(A) recognized by a federal agency as a public
entity eligible to receive a grant related to a community or
federally qualified health center described by Subdivision (2); and
(B) located in a county that, according to the
most recent federal decennial census, has a population of 650,000
or more and that borders the United Mexican States; and
(2) is organized and operated as:
(A) a migrant, community, or homeless health
center under the authority of and in compliance with 42 U.S.C.
Section 254b or 254c; or
(B) a federally qualified health center under 42
U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B).
(c-2) This section applies to a hospital district described
by Subsection (c-1) only in relation to the hospital district's
operations as a community or federally qualified health center
described by Subsection (c-1)(2).
(c-3) This subsection, Subsection (c-1), and Subsection
(c-2) expire September 1, 2007.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.