88R10059 LRM-D
 
  By: Jetton H.B. No. 4900
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment of a charitable clinic grant program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Chapter 54 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 54. CHARITABLE CLINIC GRANT PROGRAM
         Sec. 54.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Charitable clinic" means a private, nonprofit,
  community-based organization that provides health care services to
  low-income, underinsured, or uninsured persons at nominal or no
  cost through the use of volunteer health care professionals and
  health care professional partnerships.
               (2)  "Program" means the charitable clinic grant
  program established under this chapter.
         Sec. 54.002.  ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PROGRAM.
  (a) The commission shall establish and administer a charitable
  clinic grant program through which the commission awards grants to
  eligible charitable clinics to provide or expand the provision of
  health care services to low-income, underinsured, and uninsured
  persons.
         (b)  The commission may award a grant under the program only
  in accordance with a contract between the commission and a grant
  recipient. The contract must include provisions granting the
  commission sufficient control over the money awarded to ensure the
  public purpose of providing health care services to low-income,
  underinsured, and uninsured persons is accomplished and this state
  receives the return benefit.
         (c)  The commission shall award grants under the program to
  charitable clinics to:
               (1)  increase the clinic's patient capacity;
               (2)  improve the clinic's organization, efficiency, and
  effectiveness; and
               (3)  expand the clinic's provision of health care
  services.
         Sec. 54.003.  APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. (a)
  The commission shall establish application and eligibility
  requirements for a charitable clinic to satisfy in order to qualify
  for a grant award under the program.
         (b)  A charitable clinic must include in an application for a
  grant under this program the specific uses the clinic has for the
  grant money, which may include the use of grant money for:
               (1)  equipment and technology-related resources;
               (2)  expansion of the clinic premises or services;
               (3)  health care and administrative costs; and
               (4)  staff training and professional development
  costs.
         Sec. 54.004.  REVIEW COMMITTEE. (a) The commission shall
  establish a review committee to review and score grant applications
  submitted under the program for the commission's use in awarding
  grants under the program.
         (b)  The review committee must be composed of volunteers with
  appropriate expertise who represent diverse nonprofit and
  philanthropic backgrounds.
         (c)  To ensure fairness in the review process, the commission
  shall redact charitable clinic name and location information from
  the grant applications the review committee reviews and scores.
         Sec. 54.005.  MONTHLY REPORTS. A grant recipient shall
  submit to the commission each month a report that includes
  information for the preceding month on:
               (1)  the total number of new clients treated by the
  charitable clinic;
               (2)  the total amount of fees the clinic charged
  clients;
               (3)  whether Medicaid, the Medicare program, or a
  private insurer was billed for health care services provided to a
  client and the amount billed;
               (4)  the number of volunteers, including health care
  professionals, who assisted the clinic;
               (5)  the number of prescription drugs dispensed or
  prescribed;
               (6)  outcome data on:
                     (A)  the effectiveness and quality of health care
  services provided by the clinic; and
                     (B)  the percentage of clients who successfully
  completed treatment; and
               (7)  the clinic's organizational successes,
  difficulties, delays, or barriers.
         Sec. 54.006.  FUNDING. (a) The commission shall award
  grants under the program in accordance with this chapter from
  available money and any additional money appropriated for the
  purposes of the program.
         (b)  The commission may accept gifts, grants, and donations
  from any source that are made available for the purposes of the
  program.
         Sec. 54.007.  RULES. The executive commissioner shall adopt
  rules to implement this chapter.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2024, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt the rules necessary to implement Chapter 54, Health and
  Safety Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.