S.B. No. 872
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 to provide health care
services as part of the Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality
Improvement Program waiver issued under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315.
(e) A county may credit toward eligibility for state
assistance intergovernmental transfers made under Subsection (d)
that in the aggregate do not exceed four percent of the county's
general revenue levy in any state fiscal year, provided:
(1) the commissioners court determines that the
expenditure fulfills the county's obligations to provide indigent
health care under this chapter;
(2) the commissioners court determines that the amount
of care available through participation in the waiver is sufficient
in type and amount to meet the requirements of this chapter; and
(3) the county receives periodic reports from health
care providers that receive supplemental or incentive payments
under the Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement
Program waiver that document the number and types of services
provided to persons who are eligible to receive services under this
chapter.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2014, the Department
of State Health Services shall submit a report to the governor, the
lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
representatives on the effects of the provisions of this Act on
services rendered to eligible residents under Chapter 61, Health
and Safety Code.
SECTION 3. (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 4. 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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 872 passed the Senate on
April 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2013, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 872 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 148,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor