ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2304	By:	Martin (Scott) and Newell of the House

				and

			Jolley and Justice of the Senate

An Act relating to the State Department of Health; providing for duties and compensation of employees; requiring compliance with and providing budgetary limitations; exempting certain funds from expenditure and budgetary limitations; providing lapse dates; requiring and prohibiting certain budget procedures; requiring certain expenditures; requiring and providing for contents of certain reports; requiring certain contracts and evaluations; stating purpose; providing legislative intent; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

SUBJECT:  State Department of Health

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.  The duties and compensation of employees, not otherwise prescribed by law, necessary to perform the duties imposed upon the State Department of Health by law shall be set by the State Department of Health. 

SECTION 2.  For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, the State Department of Health shall budget all funds in the following categories and amounts:

Category	Appropriation	Total

Public Health Infrastructure	$ 2,705,246.00	$ 22,000,000.00

Prevention and Preparedness Services	10,006,535.00	56,000,000.00

Community and Family Health Services	35,422,801.00	207,000,000.00

Protective Health Services	4,697,693.00	64,000,000.00

Health Improvement Services	7,742,278.00	21,000,000.00

Information Services Division	2,209,129.00	28,000,000.00

State Athletic Commission	    200,000.00	     400,000.00

	TOTAL	$62,983,682.00	$398,400,000.00

Receipt and expenditures of unanticipated federal funds awarded the State Department of Health after July 1, 2013, shall be exempt from expenditure and budgetary limitations, provided that any such funds used for operations shall be included in the agency’s budget work program.  Should contingencies arise with the State Health Department’s Information Services Division consolidation and development that cause total expenditure limits to be exceeded; those amounts will be exempt from total expenditure limits, with proper documentation and approval by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

SECTION 3.  Appropriations made by this act, not including appropriations made for capital outlay purposes, may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 (hereafter FY-14) or may be budgeted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015 (hereafter FY-15).  Funds budgeted for FY-14 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2014, and must be expended by November 15, 2014.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2014, and not budgeted for FY-15, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year.  Funds budgeted for FY-15 may be encumbered only through June 30, 2015.  Any funds remaining after November 15, 2015, shall lapse to the credit of the proper fund for the then current fiscal year.  These appropriations may not be budgeted in both fiscal years simultaneously.  Funds budgeted in FY-14, and not required to pay obligations for that fiscal year, may be budgeted for FY-15, after the agency to which the funds have been appropriated has prepared and submitted a budget work program revision removing these funds from the FY-14 budget work program and after such revision has been approved by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

SECTION 4.  A.  From the funds appropriated to the State Department of Health in Section 60 of Enrolled House Bill No. 2301 of the 1st Session of the 54th Oklahoma Legislature, Three Million Four Hundred Forty-one Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-one Dollars ($3,441,761.00) shall be expended in the following manner.  It is the intent of the Legislature that the amount of Three Million One Hundred Twenty-two Thousand Two Hundred Thirty Dollars ($3,122,230.00) shall be disbursed to health centers authorized under Section 330 of the Public Health Services Act, and incorporated in the State of Oklahoma.  Any disbursement shall be solely for the reimbursement of uncompensated care costs associated with the delivery of primary health care to uninsured patients as regulated by 42 CFR, Chapter 1, Part 51c and all applicable current and future subparts and sections.  Any disbursement shall be supported by data contained within the annually submitted Federal Uniform Data System Report and supporting documentation as specified by the State Department of Health within the contract.  The methodology for disbursement shall be developed by the Primary Care Office within the Community Development Service of the State Department of Health with the approval of the Commissioner of Health.  The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate the methodology into rules.  The amount of Three Hundred Nineteen Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-one Dollars ($319,531.00) shall be expended as follows: The State Department of Health, Office of Primary Care and Rural Health Development within the Community Development Service, for the following purpose: Implement the Charitable Health Care Provider Initiative as specified in Section 152.2 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and contracts to assist with the continued expansion of Section 330 health centers and/or organizations meeting the requirements of Section 330 health centers and designated as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), as defined by 42 U.S.C., Section 1396d(l)(2)(B) including:

1.  Contracts and related costs for the provision of Charitable Health Care Providers, as defined under the provisions of Section 152.2 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 

2.  Contracts to provide for community needs assessment, strategic planning, and/or community development prior to Section 330 grant development or FQHC Look-Alike application development;

3.  Contracts to provide for grant application development to assist communities in application submission for federal funding or FQHC Look-Alike application development in submission for FQHC Look-Alike designation to establish and/or expand health center services;

4.  Contracts to assist Section 330 health centers in the development of grant applications to increase the availability or efficiency of health center services; or

5.  Contracts for specified technical assistance to Section 330 federally granted health centers having received their initial federal awards after July 1, 2008. 

B.  The State Department of Health is authorized to accept donations of land, property, buildings, equipment and gifts of money or other objects of value for the purpose of establishing or expanding Federally Qualified Health Centers.

C.  The State Department of Health is authorized to utilize grant funds, donations and other funds made available to the Department for the purpose of establishing or expanding Federally Qualified Health Centers, to the extent funds are available.

SECTION 5.  From the funds appropriated to the State Department of Health in Section 60 of Enrolled House Bill No. 2301 of the 1st Session of the 54th Oklahoma Legislature, not less than One Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,700,000.00) shall be used for the purpose of improving infant health outcomes.

SECTION 6.  It is the intent of the Legislature that of the funds appropriated to the State Department of Health in Section 60 of Enrolled House Bill No. 2301 of the 1st Session of the 54th Oklahoma Legislature not less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) be used for inspections of continuum of care and assisted living facilities operated by the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, to the extent such inspections are a duty imposed upon the State Department of Health by law.
SECTION 7.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2013.

SECTION 8.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Passed the House of Representatives the 15th day of May, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives

Passed the Senate the 20th day of May, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.

	_________________________________
	Governor of the State of Oklahoma

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________ day of __________________, 20 _______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________