Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

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1		-	84R22244 AJZ-D
2		-	By: Zerwas H.B. No. 3077
3		-	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3077:
4		-	By: Otto C.S.H.B. No. 3077
	1	+	By: Zerwas, Price, Darby, Kacal, Longoria H.B. No. 3077
5	2
6	3
7	4		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	5		AN ACT
9		-	relating to emergency medical air transportation funding.
	6	+	relating to funding for trauma facilities, emergency medical
	7	+	services, and emergency medical air transportation.
10	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	9		SECTION 1. Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code, is amended
12	10		by adding Subchapter I to read as follows:
13	11		SUBCHAPTER I. EMERGENCY MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTATION FUNDING
14	12		Sec. 773.221. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
15	13		(1) "Account" means the emergency medical air
16	14		transportation account created under Section 773.222.
17	15		(2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
18	16		Commission.
19	17		(3) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state
20	18		health services.
21	19		Sec. 773.222. EMERGENCY MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTATION
22	20		ACCOUNT. (a) The emergency medical air transportation account is
23	21		established as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. The
24	22		account is composed of:
25	23		(1) money deposited to the credit of the account under
26	24		Section 542.4031, Transportation Code; and
27	25		(2) notwithstanding Section 404.071, Government Code,
28	26		interest earned on the investment of money in the account and
29	27		depository interest allocable to the account.
30	28		(b) Money in the account may be appropriated only to the
31	29		department for the purposes described by Subsection (c).
32	30		(c) The commissioner may:
33	31		(1) use the money appropriated from the account to
34	32		provide funding, in addition to funding available from other
35	33		sources, for emergency medical air transportation; and
36	34		(2) after consulting with the executive commissioner,
37	35		transfer the money appropriated from the account to the commission
38	36		to:
39	37		(A) provide reimbursements under the medical
40	38		assistance program under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, to
41	39		providers of emergency medical air transportation services,
42	40		including reimbursement enhancements to the statewide dollar
43	41		amount rate used to reimburse designated air ambulance services
44	42		under the program; and
45	43		(B) maximize the receipt of federal funds under
46	44		the medical assistance program under Chapter 32, Human Resources
47	45		Code, to the extent possible.
48		-	SECTION 2. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, is
	46	+	SECTION 2. The heading to Section 780.002, Health and
	47	+	Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
	48	+	Sec. 780.002. CERTAIN DEPOSITS TO ACCOUNT.
	49	+	SECTION 3. Section 780.003(b), Health and Safety Code, is
	50	+	amended to read as follows:
	51	+	(b) The account is composed of money deposited to the credit
	52	+	of the account under Sections 542.4031, 542.406, and 707.008,
	53	+	Transportation Code, and under Section 780.002 of this code[, and
	54	+	the earnings of the account].
	55	+	SECTION 4. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, is
49	56		amended to read as follows:
50	57		(g) Of the money received by the comptroller under this
51	58		section, the comptroller shall deposit:
52	59		(1) 50 [67] percent to the credit of the undedicated
53	60		portion of the general revenue fund; [and]
54	61		(2) 33 percent to the credit of the designated trauma
55	62		facility and emergency medical services account under Section
56	63		780.003, Health and Safety Code; and
57	64		(3) 17 percent to the credit of the designated
58	65		emergency medical air transportation account under Section
59	66		773.222, Health and Safety Code.
60		-	SECTION 3. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, as
	67	+	SECTION 5. Section 542.406(c), Transportation Code, is
	68	+	amended to read as follows:
	69	+	(c) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local
	70	+	authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local
	71	+	authority is authorized by Subsection (d) to retain, the local
	72	+	authority shall:
	73	+	(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil
	74	+	or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under
	75	+	this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
	76	+	designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical
	77	+	services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002],
	78	+	Health and Safety Code; and
	79	+	(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special
	80	+	account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to
	81	+	fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety
	82	+	programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and
	83	+	traffic enforcement.
	84	+	SECTION 6. Section 707.008(a), Transportation Code, is
	85	+	amended to read as follows:
	86	+	(a) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local
	87	+	authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local
	88	+	authority is authorized by Subsection (b) to retain, the local
	89	+	authority shall:
	90	+	(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil
	91	+	or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under
	92	+	this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
	93	+	designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical
	94	+	services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002],
	95	+	Health and Safety Code; and
	96	+	(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special
	97	+	account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to
	98	+	fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety
	99	+	programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and
	100	+	traffic enforcement.
	101	+	SECTION 7. The following laws are repealed:
	102	+	(1) Section 780.003(c), Health and Safety Code; and
	103	+	(2) Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code, as amended by
	104	+	S.B. No. 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015.
	105	+	SECTION 8. On the effective date of this Act:
	106	+	(1) the regional trauma account established under
	107	+	Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code, is abolished; and
	108	+	(2) any unexpended and unobligated balance of money in
	109	+	the regional trauma account is transferred to the designated trauma
	110	+	facility and emergency medical services account established under
	111	+	Section 780.003, Health and Safety Code.
	112	+	SECTION 9. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, as
61	113		amended by this Act, applies only to the distribution of revenue
62	114		collected on or after the effective date of this Act. The
63	115		distribution of revenue collected before the effective date of this
64	116		Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the revenue was
65	117		collected, and that law is continued in effect for the purpose of
66	118		the distribution of that revenue.
67		-	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	119	+	SECTION 10. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.