By: Deuell S.B. No. 872
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to expenditures for indigent health care.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.035, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 61.035. LIMITATION OF COUNTY LIABILITY. (a) The
maximum county liability for each state fiscal year for health care
services provided by all assistance providers, including a hospital
and a skilled nursing facility, to each eligible county resident
is:
(1) $30,000; or
(2) the payment of 30 days of hospitalization or
treatment in a skilled nursing facility, or both, or $30,000,
whichever occurs first, if the county provides hospital or skilled
nursing facility services to the resident.
(b) The maximum county liability for each state fiscal year
is eight percent of the county general revenue levy for that year
on:
(1) services provided to an eligible resident as
described in Sections 61.028 and 61.0285; or
(2) up to four percent of a county's general revenue
levy may be credited as described in Section 61.036(d) or (e).
SECTION 2. Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
and regardless of the application, documentation, and verification
procedures or eligibility standards established by the department
under Subchapter A, a county may credit up to four percent of the
county's general revenue levy as an expenditure toward the
limitation of a county's liability per state fiscal year any
intergovernmental transfer to the state made as part of a
demonstration waiver program or other waiver program under 42
U.S.C. Section 1315 or 42 U.S.C. Section 1396n to provide health
care under the terms of the waiver program.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
and regardless of the application, documentation, and verification
procedures or eligibility standards established by the department
under Subchapter A, a county may credit up to four percent of the
county's general revenue levy as an expenditure toward the
limitation of a county's liability per state fiscal year any
intergovernmental transfer by a county to the state 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 et seq.
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.