88R4539 KKR-F
By: Eckhardt, et al. S.B. No. 1314
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to money awarded to providers of women's health services
and family planning services, including the repeal of prohibitions
on the provision of those services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 531.0025, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 531.0025. [RESTRICTIONS ON] AWARDS TO FAMILY PLANNING
SERVICE PROVIDERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, money
appropriated to the commission [Department of State Health
Services] for the purpose of providing family planning services
must be awarded[:
[(1)] to eligible public and nonpublic entities that
provide family planning services in the following order of
descending priority:
(1) entities with a demonstrated, evidence-based,
historical capability of achieving the patient and service
utilization goals the commission establishes for family planning
services; and
(2) entities with an increased probability of
achieving the goals described by Subdivision (1)
[(A) public entities that provide family
planning services, including state, county, and local community
health clinics and federally qualified health centers;
[(B) nonpublic entities that provide
comprehensive primary and preventive care services in addition to
family planning services; and
[(C) nonpublic entities that provide family
planning services but do not provide comprehensive primary and
preventive care services; or
[(2) as otherwise directed by the legislature in the
General Appropriations Act].
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commission
[Department of State Health Services] shall, in compliance with
federal law, ensure distribution of funds for family planning
services in a manner that provides equitable [does not severely
limit or eliminate] access to [those] services in all regions [any
region] of the state.
SECTION 2. The following provisions are repealed:
(1) Chapter 2273, Government Code; and
(2) Section 32.024(c-1), Human Resources Code.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.