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79R16289 UM-D
By: Nelson S.B. No. 44
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 44:
By: McReynolds C.S.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) The advisory committee shall:
(1) conduct a feasibility study and develop
recommendations regarding the implementation of a pilot program for
the regionalization of county indigent health care services and
assistance and hospital district services and assistance;
(2) review and propose recommendations for
legislation updating indigent health care and treatment under this
chapter, including:
(A) the health care services provided under
Subchapter B;
(B) the differences in eligibility requirements
for and health care services provided by:
(i) a county under Subchapter B;
(ii) a public hospital under Subchapter C;
and
(iii) a hospital district under Subchapter
C;
(C) the allocation method used for distributing
state assistance funds; and
(D) county reporting requirements and
enforcement by the department; and
(3) identify other areas or subjects related to
indigent health care that the advisory committee could review or
study.
(d) Chapter 2110, Government Code, does not apply to the
size or composition of the advisory committee.
(e) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year,
the Health and Human Services Commission shall submit a report
regarding the advisory committee's recommendations to the
governor, lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
representatives, and the legislature.
(f) This section expires September 1, 2007.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.