By: Hegar S.B. No. 901

(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2011; March 8, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; March 28, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 28, 2011, sent to printer.)

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.

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