Bill Text: TX HB335 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to implementation and requirements of certain health care reform laws.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 41-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2011-06-17 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB335 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB335-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 335 |
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relating to implementation and requirements of certain health care | ||
reform laws. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 322.021 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 322.021. MANDATORY HEALTH CARE REFORM REPORTS FROM | ||
STATE AGENCIES. (a) In this section, "state agency" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 2056.001. | ||
(b) A state agency shall submit a report described by | ||
Subsection (d) to: | ||
(1) the board; | ||
(2) the governor; | ||
(3) the lieutenant governor; | ||
(4) the speaker of the house of representatives; and | ||
(5) the appropriate standing legislative committees | ||
having jurisdiction over issues relating to health care reform. | ||
(c) A state agency must submit a report described by | ||
Subsection (d) of an expenditure incurred in implementing a | ||
provision of a federal health care reform law if: | ||
(1) the provision: | ||
(A) requires a person to purchase health | ||
insurance or similar health coverage; | ||
(B) requires an employer to provide health | ||
insurance or similar health coverage to or for employees; | ||
(C) imposes a penalty on an employer who does not | ||
provide health insurance or similar health coverage to or for | ||
employees; | ||
(D) expands eligibility for the state Medicaid | ||
program or state child health plan program; | ||
(E) creates a health insurance coverage mandate | ||
affecting a person; or | ||
(F) creates a new health insurance or similar | ||
health coverage program that is administered by this state or a | ||
political subdivision of this state; or | ||
(2) the board, in the exercise of the board's duties | ||
under this chapter, determines that a report about the expenditure | ||
is necessary to a comprehensive and continuing review of a program | ||
or operation of a state agency. | ||
(d) A report required under Subsection (b) must: | ||
(1) cite the specific federal statute or regulation | ||
that requires the state to implement the provision; | ||
(2) state whether the provision requires or allows a | ||
state waiver or option; | ||
(3) describe the state action required to implement | ||
the provision; | ||
(4) identify the individuals, legal entities, and | ||
state agencies that may be impacted by the implementation of or | ||
refusal to implement the provision; and | ||
(5) estimate the cost to be incurred by the state to | ||
implement the provision. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by Section 322.021, | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act, apply only to a provision of | ||
federal health care reform law implemented by a state agency on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A provision of federal health | ||
care reform law implemented by a state agency before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 335 was passed by the House on May 12, | ||
2011, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 11, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 335 on May 27, 2011, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 335 on May 29, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 139, | ||
Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 335 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays | ||
7; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
335 on May 29, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4 | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |