BILL ANALYSIS
By: McReynolds
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
The diabetes demonstration pilot program is a bill to allow the establishment of a diabetes demonstration pilot program at the Memorial Health System of East Texas to provide a comprehensive approach to promoting the prevention and treatment of diabetes.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
HB 3735 requires the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Diabetes Council to assist in the establishment of a diabetes demonstration pilot program at the Memorial Health System of East Texas to provide a comprehensive approach to promoting the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and enumerates the way in which the pilot program must operate.
HB 3735 allows the Memorial Health System of East Texas to solicit, accept, and administer gifts and grants from any source, other than this state, for the use and benefit of the diabetes demonstration pilot program.
HB 3735 requires that not later than October 1, 2008, the Memorial Health System of East Texas to submit a report to the Texas Diabetes Council regarding the effectiveness of the pilot program along with any recommendations to continue, expand, or eliminate the pilot program.
The diabetes demonstration pilot program expires September 1, 2009.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2007.