Bill Text: TX HB2454 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement of health care services rendered by a health care provider for an inmate of a county jail or another county correctional facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2454-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement of health care services rendered by a health care provider for an inmate of a county jail or another county correctional facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2454-Comm_Sub.html
By: Frank (Senate Sponsor - Estes) | H.B. No. 2454 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013; | ||
May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to | ||
printer.) |
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relating to reimbursement of health care services rendered by a | ||
health care provider for an inmate of a county jail or another | ||
county correctional facility. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.036(c), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) Regardless of the application, documentation, and | ||
verification procedures or eligibility standards established by | ||
the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an | ||
expenditure for an eligible resident toward eligibility for state | ||
assistance if the eligible resident received the health care | ||
services at: | ||
(1) a hospital maintained or operated by a state | ||
agency that has a contract with the county to provide health care | ||
services; [ |
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(2) a federally qualified health center delivering | ||
federally qualified health center services, as those terms are | ||
defined in 42 U.S.C. Sections 1396d(l)(2)(A) and (B), that has a | ||
contract with the county to provide health care services; or | ||
(3) a hospital or other health care provider if the | ||
eligible resident is an inmate of a county jail or another county | ||
correctional facility. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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