Bill Text: TX HB2490 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain providers of laboratory services for health and human services programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-17 - Left pending in committee [HB2490 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2490-Introduced.html
By: Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 2490 |
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elating to the eligibility of certain providers of laboratory | ||
services for health and human services programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 531.0058 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0058. DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY SERVICES. (a) | ||
Regardless of where specific laboratory services are performed, or | ||
where a laboratory is physically located, any provider of | ||
diagnostic laboratory services shall be eligible to participate in | ||
all health and human services programs as an in-state provider if | ||
the provider, or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated company or | ||
companies, individually or in the aggregate, maintain diagnostic | ||
laboratory operations and employ at least 1000 persons within | ||
Texas. | ||
(b) This section does not impair the commission's authority | ||
to refuse enrollment of a provider on the grounds that the provider | ||
is otherwise unqualified for enrollment. | ||
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, 2013. |