2009S0536-1 03/02/09
By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1906
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reports on expenditures of hospital upper payment limit
supplemental payment program money.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 531.0991 to read as follows:
Sec. 531.0991. REPORTS ON UPPER PAYMENT LIMIT MONEY.
(a) Not later than the first day of the second month following each
calendar quarter, each hospital in the state that receives from the
state federal money under the hospital upper payment limit
supplemental payment program, other than money provided through the
health opportunity pool trust fund established under Section
531.503, shall submit a report to the commission that, for the
previous calendar quarter, states the hospital's aggregated
expenditures of that money that were health care related and the
hospital's aggregated expenditures of that money that were
non-health care related.
(b) Not later than the first day of the second month
following each calendar quarter, each private entity that
administers a hospital upper payment limit supplemental payment
program for a hospital or county or other governmental entity that
receives money from this state under that program shall submit a
report to the commission that, for the previous calendar quarter,
states the administrative and legal fees charged by the private
entity out of all upper payment limit money.
(c) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission
shall provide to the standing committees of the senate and house of
representatives having primary jurisdiction of health and human
services a report that:
(1) is based on the reports submitted by hospitals and
private entities under Subsections (a) and (b) during the previous
12-month period;
(2) analyzes the percentage of federal upper payment
limit supplemental payment program money paid to those hospitals
that is used for health care related purposes and the percentage
that is used for non-health care related purposes; and
(3) analyzes the percentage of federal upper payment
limit supplemental payment program money that is used for
administrative and legal fees by those private entities.
(d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules as
necessary that specify for purposes of this section the types of
expenditures by hospitals that are health care related and the
types of expenditures that are non-health care related.
SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 2010, each hospital
and private entity to which Section 531.0991, Government Code, as
added by this Act, applies shall submit the initial reports
required by that section.
SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2010, the Health and
Human Services Commission shall submit the initial report required
by Subsection (c), Section 531.0991, Government Code, as added by
this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.