83R7321 AJZ-F
By: Deuell S.B. No. 872
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 Subsection (d) 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 to provide health care
services as part of a waiver program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315 or
42 U.S.C. Section 1396n.
SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act 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.