79R478 UM-D
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 committee shall consist of 11 members, including
four consumer and seven other representatives, appointed by the
executive commissioner.
(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.