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1	1	By: Frank (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 2454
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013;
3	3	May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
4	4	Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by
5	5	the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to
6	6	printer.)
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9	9	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	10	AN ACT
11	11	relating to reimbursement of health care services rendered by a
12	12	health care provider for an inmate of a county jail or another
13	13	county correctional facility.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Section 61.036(c), Health and Safety Code, is
16	16	amended to read as follows:
17	17	(c) Regardless of the application, documentation, and
18	18	verification procedures or eligibility standards established by
19	19	the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an
20	20	expenditure for an eligible resident toward eligibility for state
21	21	assistance if the eligible resident received the health care
22	22	services at:
23	23	(1) a hospital maintained or operated by a state
24	24	agency that has a contract with the county to provide health care
25	25	services; [or]
26	26	(2) a federally qualified health center delivering
27	27	federally qualified health center services, as those terms are
28	28	defined in 42 U.S.C. Sections 1396d(l)(2)(A) and (B), that has a
29	29	contract with the county to provide health care services; or
30	30	(3) a hospital or other health care provider if the
31	31	eligible resident is an inmate of a county jail or another county
32	32	correctional facility.
33	33	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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