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Amend CSSB 10 as follows:
(1) On page 7, line 22, to page 8, line 1, of SECTION 2 of the
committee substitute, strike Subsection (b) of SECTION 2 and
substitute Subsection (b) as follows:
(b) Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 531.0057 to read as follows:
(b) Sec. 531.0057. MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. (a) The
Health and Human Services Commission shall provide medical
transportation services for clients of eligible health and human
services programs.
(c) The commission may contract with any public or private
transportation provider or with any regional transportation broker
for the provision of public transportation services.
(2) On page 8, line 2, to page 9, line 7, of SECTION 2 of the
committee substitute strike Subsections (c) and (d) of SECTION 2.
(3) On page 58, line 21, of the committee substitute, insert
SECTION 19 as follows and renumber the subsequent sections
appropriately:
SECTION 19. (a) Subject to the appropriation of funds for
these purposes and subsection (c) of this section, all powers,
duties, functions, activities, obligations, rights, contracts,
records, assets, personal property, personnel, appropriations or
other money of the Texas Department of Transportation that are
essential to the administration of the medical transportation
program, as specified in Section 531.0057, Government Code, are
transferred by this Act are transferred to the Health and Human
Services Commission.
(b) A reference in law or an administrative rule to the Texas
Department of Transportation that relates to the medical
transportation program means the Health and Human Services
Commission.
(c) The Texas Department of Transportation shall take all
action necessary to provide for the transfer of its contractual
obligations to administer the medical transportation program, as
specified in Section 531.0057, Government Code, to the commission
as soon as possible after the effective date of this section but not
later than September 1, 2008.
(d) The following sections remain in effect until September
1, 2008, for the limited purpose of effecting the transfer of the
medical transportation program, as specified in Section 531.0057,
Government Code. The following sections are repealed, effective
September 1, 2008:
(1) Section 531.02412(b), Government Code;
(2) Section 461.012(a)(19), Health and Safety Code;
(3) Section 461.012(g), Health and Safety Code;
(4) Section 533.012(b), Health and Safety Code;
(5) Section 22.001(e), Human Resources Code;
(6) Section 40.002(f), Human Resources Code;
(7) Section 91.021(g), Human Resources Code;
(8) Section 101.0256(b), Human Resources Code;
(9) Section 111.0525(d), Human Resources Code;
(10) Section 301.063(f), Labor Code;
(11) Section 455.0015, Transportation Code; and,
(12) Section 461.003, Transportation Code.