83R24888 AJZ-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 3733
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3733:
By: M. Gonzalez of El Paso C.S.H.B. No. 3733
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to county expenditures for certain health care services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Regardless of the application, documentation, and
verification procedures or eligibility standards established by
the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an
intergovernmental transfer to the state toward eligibility for
state assistance if the transfer was made:
(1) to provide health care services as part of a waiver
program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315 or 1396n; or
(2) as part of the state plan for disproportionate
share hospitals under 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-4 or 1 T.A.C. Section
355.8065.
(e) A county may not credit toward eligibility for state
assistance any intergovernmental transfer made under Subsection
(d)(1) or (2) that, separately or in combination, exceeds six
percent of the county's general revenue levy in any state fiscal
year.
SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act to
Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, applies only to state
assistance for health care services under Chapter 61, Health and
Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that are delivered on or after
the effective date of this Act.
(b) State assistance for health care services under Chapter
61, Health and Safety Code, that are delivered before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.