BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center H.B. 1924
79R10794 KEG-D By: Chavez (Shapleigh)
International Relations & Trade
AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Nonprofit health corporations in Texas must be certified by the State Board of Medical Examiners to contract with or employ physicians and Texas non-profit corporations organized and operated as federally qualified health centers are eligible for such certification. These centers provide necessary health care services in impoverished areas along the Texas-Mexico border but questions exist regarding their ability to employ physicians because of their arrangement with public entity hospitals.
H.B. 1924 clarifies the ability of a federally qualified health center administered by a public entity hospital district and located in a county that borders Mexico to employ physicians.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 162.001(c), Occupations Code, to require the State Board of Medical Examiners (board) to certify a health organization to contract with or employ physicians licensed by the board if the organization is a hospital district recognized by a federal agency as a public entity for the purposes of receiving a grant related to a community or federally qualified health center described by this section and located in county that borders the United Mexican States.
SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 2005.