Bill Text: TX SB1966 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for school-based health care initiatives established to serve certain underserved students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1966-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Alvarado, et al. | S.B. No. 1966 | |
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| relating to a grant program for school-based health care | ||
| initiatives established to serve certain underserved students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0606 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0606. SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE GRANT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| In this section, "program" means the school-based health care grant | ||
| program established under this section. | ||
| (b) Using legislative appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose, the commission shall establish and administer a grant | ||
| program for health care organizations to implement, maintain, and | ||
| expand a school-based health care initiative for underserved | ||
| students and to provide those students with preventative and | ||
| primary health care, including: | ||
| (1) medical services; | ||
| (2) dental services; | ||
| (3) therapeutic services; and | ||
| (4) nonmedical services, such as nutritional | ||
| services. | ||
| (c) The commission shall establish grant application | ||
| procedures, criteria for evaluating applications and awarding | ||
| grants, and procedures for monitoring the use of grants awarded | ||
| under the program and ensuring compliance with any condition of a | ||
| grant awarded under the program. | ||
| (d) A grant recipient must use grant money to establish a | ||
| school-based health care initiative for a school district that has | ||
| a student population with at least 50 percent of its students who: | ||
| (1) are uninsured or underinsured; or | ||
| (2) receive free or reduced-price lunches. | ||
| (e) A grant recipient may provide preventative and primary | ||
| health care services under the program to a student younger than 18 | ||
| years of age only if the grant recipient obtains the consent of the | ||
| parent or legal guardian of the student. | ||
| (f) The commission may award a grant under the program only | ||
| in accordance with a contract between the commission and a grant | ||
| recipient. The contract must include provisions granting the | ||
| commission sufficient control over the money awarded to ensure the | ||
| public purpose of providing health care services to underserved | ||
| students is accomplished and this state receives the return | ||
| benefit. | ||
| (g) This section expires on the second anniversary of the | ||
| date that all money appropriated for the program established under | ||
| this section has been expended. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
| required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
| legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
| the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
