By: Hegar S.B. No. 901
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to approval from the Department of State Health Services
  for disposal of ambulances purchased with certain grant funds.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 773.122, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A grant recipient may not before the fourth
  anniversary of the date a grant is awarded under Subsection (a)
  dispose of an ambulance for which the total costs of purchasing the
  ambulance were paid only from grants awarded under Subsection (a)
  or Section 780.004(a) unless the grant recipient obtains the
  department's prior approval.
         SECTION 2.  Section 780.004, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A grant recipient may not before the fourth
  anniversary of the date a grant is awarded under Subsection (a)
  dispose of an ambulance for which the total costs of purchasing the
  ambulance were paid only from grants awarded under Subsection (a)
  or Section 773.122(a) unless the grant recipient obtains the
  department's prior approval.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 773.122 and 780.004, Health and Safety
  Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to a grant awarded under
  those sections on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.