83R24888 AJZ-F

By: Coleman H.B. No. 3733

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3733:

By: M. Gonzalez of El Paso C.S.H.B. No. 3733

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to county expenditures for certain health care services.

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

SECTION 1. Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:

(d) Regardless of the application, documentation, and verification procedures or eligibility standards established by the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an intergovernmental transfer to the state toward eligibility for state assistance if the transfer was made:

(1) to provide health care services as part of a waiver program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315 or 1396n; or

(2) as part of the state plan for disproportionate share hospitals under 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-4 or 1 T.A.C. Section 355.8065.

(e) A county may not credit toward eligibility for state assistance any intergovernmental transfer made under Subsection (d)(1) or (2) that, separately or in combination, exceeds six percent of the county's general revenue levy in any state fiscal year.

SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act to Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, applies only to state assistance for health care services under Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that are delivered on or after the effective date of this Act.

(b) State assistance for health care services under Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, that are delivered before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2013.