81R8324 PMO-D
By: McClendon H.B. No. 1279
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to dedication of a portion of unclaimed lottery revenues
to the Texas rail relocation and improvement fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the
180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize
money shall be used in the following order of priority:
(1) subject to legislative appropriation, not more
than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to or
appropriated from the [Texas] Department of State Health Services
state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, which is
an account in the general revenue fund;
(2) not more than $5 million in prize money each year
may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and
shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital
services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the
Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not
less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal
Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology
for the hospital providing the services; and
(3) all prize money subject to this section and not
appropriated in accordance with [from the Texas Department of
Health state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account or
not appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission for
the purpose specified in] Subdivision (1) or (2) shall be deposited
in the Texas rail relocation and improvement fund created under
Section 49-o, Article III, Texas Constitution, and may be used only
as provided by that section [general revenue fund and may be
appropriated for any purpose as determined by the legislature,
including the provision of indigent health care services as
specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.