Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

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1	1	84R10385 AJZ-F
2	2	By: Uresti S.B. No. 1493
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to emergency medical air transportation funding.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code, is amended
10	10	by adding Subchapter I to read as follows:
11	11	SUBCHAPTER I. EMERGENCY MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTATION FUNDING
12	12	Sec. 773.221. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
13	13	(1) "Account" means the emergency medical air
14	14	transportation account created under Section 773.222.
15	15	(2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
16	16	Commission.
17	17	(3) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state
18	18	health services.
19	19	Sec. 773.222. EMERGENCY MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTATION
20	20	ACCOUNT. (a) The emergency medical air transportation account is
21	21	established as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. The
22	22	account is composed of:
23	23	(1) money deposited to the credit of the account under
24	24	Section 542.4031, Transportation Code; and
25	25	(2) notwithstanding Section 404.071, Government Code,
26	26	interest earned on the investment of money in the account and
27	27	depository interest allocable to the account.
28	28	(b) Money in the account may be appropriated only to the
29	29	department for the purposes described by Subsection (c).
30	30	(c) The commissioner may:
31	31	(1) use the money appropriated from the account to
32	32	fund emergency medical air transportation; and
33	33	(2) after consulting with the executive commissioner,
34	34	transfer the money appropriated from the account to the commission
35	35	to:
36	36	(A) provide reimbursements under the medical
37	37	assistance program under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, to
38	38	providers of emergency medical air transportation services,
39	39	including reimbursement enhancements to the statewide dollar
40	40	amount rate used to reimburse designated air ambulance services
41	41	under the program; and
42	42	(B) maximize the receipt of federal funds under
43	43	the medical assistance program under Chapter 32, Human Resources
44	44	Code.
45	45	SECTION 2. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, is
46	46	amended to read as follows:
47	47	(g) Of the money received by the comptroller under this
48	48	section, the comptroller shall deposit:
49	49	(1) 67 percent to the credit of the undedicated
50	50	portion of the general revenue fund; [and]
51	51	(2) 16.5 [33] percent to the credit of the designated
52	52	trauma facility and emergency medical services account under
53	53	Section 780.003, Health and Safety Code; and
54	54	(3) 16.5 percent to the credit of the designated
55	55	emergency medical air transportation account under Section
56	56	773.222, Health and Safety Code.
57	57	SECTION 3. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, as
58	58	amended by this Act, applies only to the distribution of revenue
59	59	collected on or after the effective date of this Act. The
60	60	distribution of revenue collected before the effective date of this
61	61	Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the revenue was
62	62	collected, and that law is continued in effect for the purpose of
63	63	the distribution of that revenue.
64	64	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.