Bill Text: TX HB2966 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to facilities and services for the care of the elderly or persons with disabilities in certain municipal hospital authorities, hospital districts, or other authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB2966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2966-Introduced.html
86R6646 JCG-F | ||
By: Zerwas | H.B. No. 2966 |
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relating to facilities and services for the care of the elderly or | ||
persons with disabilities in certain municipal hospital | ||
authorities, hospital districts, or other authorities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 262.034(e), (f), and (g), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) This section applies only to an authority: | ||
(1) that owns or operates a hospital licensed under | ||
Chapter 241 and that is located in: | ||
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or less; | ||
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municipalities that the federal census bureau has determined to be | ||
rural; | ||
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urbanized area by the federal census bureau; or | ||
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less than 12,000 and a county with a population of 2.5 million or | ||
more at the time the authority begins operating a facility or | ||
providing a service described by Subsection (a); or | ||
(2) that owns or operates a facility described by | ||
Subsection (a) that participates in the Quality Incentive Payment | ||
Program (QIPP) or a successor Medicaid supplemental payment | ||
program. | ||
(f) This section does not authorize an authority described | ||
by Subsection (e)(1) [ |
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other notes in accordance with this chapter to construct, acquire, | ||
own, enlarge, improve, furnish, or equip a facility or service | ||
listed in Subsection (a) if a private provider of the facility or | ||
service is available and accessible in the service area of the | ||
authority. | ||
(g) An authority described by Subsection (e)(1)(D) [ |
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may not own or operate more than 50 licensed nursing home beds under | ||
this section and is not subject to Subsection (f). | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 285.101(a) and (d), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This subchapter applies only to a hospital, hospital | ||
district, or authority created and operated under Article IX, Texas | ||
Constitution, under a special law, or under this title: | ||
(1) that is located in: | ||
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less; | ||
(B) [ |
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municipalities that the federal census bureau has determined to be | ||
rural; or | ||
(C) [ |
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urbanized area by the federal census bureau; or | ||
(2) that owns or operates a facility described by | ||
Subsection (b) that participates in the Quality Incentive Payment | ||
Program (QIPP) or a successor Medicaid supplemental payment | ||
program. | ||
(d) This section does not authorize a hospital, hospital | ||
district, or authority described by Subsection (a)(1) to issue | ||
revenue bonds or other notes in accordance with this chapter to | ||
construct, acquire, own, enlarge, improve, furnish, or equip a | ||
facility or service listed in Subsection (b)(1) if a private | ||
provider of the facility or service is available and accessible in | ||
the service area of the hospital, hospital district, or authority. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |