By:  Nelson                                                       S.B. No. 44 


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the Indigent Health Care Advisory Committee.                      
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 61, Health and Safety 
Code, is amended by adding Section 61.012 to read as follows:
	Sec. 61.012.  INDIGENT HEALTH CARE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.  
(a)  The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services 
Commission shall establish an advisory committee to advise the 
commission on rules and policies concerning indigent health care 
services.
	(b)  The advisory committee shall consist of 11 members, 
including four consumers or persons representing consumers and 
seven other representatives, appointed by the executive 
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
	(c)  Chapter 2110, Government Code, does not apply to the 
size or composition of the advisory committee.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.