By: Deuell S.B. No. 1836
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to funding of the Texas Home Visiting Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 191.0045, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The board by rule may prescribe a schedule of fees for
vital statistics services. [The aggregate of the amounts of the
fees may not exceed the cost of administering the vital statistics
system.]
SECTION 2. Section 191.005, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), all [All] fees
collected by the bureau of vital statistics shall be deposited to
the credit of the vital statistics fund.
(d) A portion of the fees collected by the bureau of vital
statistics may be appropriated by the legislature to the Health and
Human Services Commission to fund the Texas Home Visiting Program.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.