88R4539 KKR-F
 
  By: Eckhardt, et al. S.B. No. 1314
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to money awarded to providers of women's health services
  and family planning services, including the repeal of prohibitions
  on the provision of those services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 531.0025, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 531.0025.  [RESTRICTIONS ON] AWARDS TO FAMILY PLANNING
  SERVICE PROVIDERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, money
  appropriated to the commission [Department of State Health
  Services] for the purpose of providing family planning services
  must be awarded[:
               [(1)]  to eligible public and nonpublic entities that
  provide family planning services in the following order of
  descending priority:
               (1)  entities with a demonstrated, evidence-based,
  historical capability of achieving the patient and service
  utilization goals the commission establishes for family planning
  services; and
               (2)  entities with an increased probability of
  achieving the goals described by Subdivision (1)
                     [(A)  public entities that provide family
  planning services, including state, county, and local community
  health clinics and federally qualified health centers;
                     [(B)  nonpublic entities that provide
  comprehensive primary and preventive care services in addition to
  family planning services; and
                     [(C)  nonpublic entities that provide family
  planning services but do not provide comprehensive primary and
  preventive care services; or
               [(2)  as otherwise directed by the legislature in the
  General Appropriations Act].
         (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commission
  [Department of State Health Services] shall, in compliance with
  federal law, ensure distribution of funds for family planning
  services in a manner that provides equitable [does not severely
  limit or eliminate] access to [those] services in all regions [any
  region] of the state.
         SECTION 2.  The following provisions are repealed:
               (1)  Chapter 2273, Government Code; and
               (2)  Section 32.024(c-1), Human Resources Code.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.