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