Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

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1	1	2009S0536-1 03/02/09
2	2	By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1906
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to reports on expenditures of hospital upper payment limit
8	8	supplemental payment program money.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
11	11	amended by adding Section 531.0991 to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 531.0991. REPORTS ON UPPER PAYMENT LIMIT MONEY.
13	13	(a) Not later than the first day of the second month following each
14	14	calendar quarter, each hospital in the state that receives from the
15	15	state federal money under the hospital upper payment limit
16	16	supplemental payment program, other than money provided through the
17	17	health opportunity pool trust fund established under Section
18	18	531.503, shall submit a report to the commission that, for the
19	19	previous calendar quarter, states the hospital's aggregated
20	20	expenditures of that money that were health care related and the
21	21	hospital's aggregated expenditures of that money that were
22	22	non-health care related.
23	23	(b) Not later than the first day of the second month
24	24	following each calendar quarter, each private entity that
25	25	administers a hospital upper payment limit supplemental payment
26	26	program for a hospital or county or other governmental entity that
27	27	receives money from this state under that program shall submit a
28	28	report to the commission that, for the previous calendar quarter,
29	29	states the administrative and legal fees charged by the private
30	30	entity out of all upper payment limit money.
31	31	(c) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission
32	32	shall provide to the standing committees of the senate and house of
33	33	representatives having primary jurisdiction of health and human
34	34	services a report that:
35	35	(1) is based on the reports submitted by hospitals and
36	36	private entities under Subsections (a) and (b) during the previous
37	37	12-month period;
38	38	(2) analyzes the percentage of federal upper payment
39	39	limit supplemental payment program money paid to those hospitals
40	40	that is used for health care related purposes and the percentage
41	41	that is used for non-health care related purposes; and
42	42	(3) analyzes the percentage of federal upper payment
43	43	limit supplemental payment program money that is used for
44	44	administrative and legal fees by those private entities.
45	45	(d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules as
46	46	necessary that specify for purposes of this section the types of
47	47	expenditures by hospitals that are health care related and the
48	48	types of expenditures that are non-health care related.
49	49	SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 2010, each hospital
50	50	and private entity to which Section 531.0991, Government Code, as
51	51	added by this Act, applies shall submit the initial reports
52	52	required by that section.
53	53	SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2010, the Health and
54	54	Human Services Commission shall submit the initial report required
55	55	by Subsection (c), Section 531.0991, Government Code, as added by
56	56	this Act.
57	57	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.