Bill Text: TX HB1091 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain hospital districts to contract for the performance of administrative functions and services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [HB1091 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1091-Introduced.html
| 82R2335 CJC-F | ||
| By: J. Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 1091 | |
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| relating to the authority of certain hospital districts to contract | ||
| for the performance of administrative functions and services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 281, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 281.0512 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 281.0512. CONTRACT TO PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
| federally qualified health center as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 1396d(l)(2)(B) or a federally qualified health center look-alike | ||
| organized and operated under the authority of and in compliance | ||
| with 42 U.S.C. Section 254b that is substantially devoted to | ||
| providing services to socially and economically disadvantaged | ||
| individuals in the geographical area of the district. | ||
| (b) The board may contract with a federally qualified health | ||
| center or a federally qualified health center look-alike to perform | ||
| for the center administrative functions and services that the | ||
| district and the center may perform independently. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
