By: Frank (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 2454

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013; May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to reimbursement of health care services rendered by a health care provider for an inmate of a county jail or another county correctional facility.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 61.036(c), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c) Regardless of the application, documentation, and verification procedures or eligibility standards established by the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an expenditure for an eligible resident toward eligibility for state assistance if the eligible resident received the health care services at:

(1) a hospital maintained or operated by a state agency that has a contract with the county to provide health care services; [or]

(2) a federally qualified health center delivering federally qualified health center services, as those terms are defined in 42 U.S.C. Sections 1396d(l)(2)(A) and (B), that has a contract with the county to provide health care services; or

(3) a hospital or other health care provider if the eligible resident is an inmate of a county jail or another county correctional facility.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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