Bill Text: TX HB392 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a county's eligibility to receive state assistance for health care expenditures that exceed eight percent of the county's general revenue levy for the year.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB392 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB392-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Gonzales of Hidalgo, Schwertner, | H.B. No. 392 | |
| Deshotel, Brown, et al. | ||
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| relating to a county's eligibility to receive state assistance for | ||
| health care expenditures that exceed eight percent of the county's | ||
| general revenue levy for the year. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.037, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) A county may include as part of the county's eight | ||
| percent expenditure level calculated under Subsection (b)(1) any | ||
| payment made by the county for health care services provided | ||
| through Medicaid, including the county's direct reimbursement to | ||
| health care providers and indirect reimbursement through transfers | ||
| of funds to the state for health care services provided through | ||
| Medicaid. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 61.038, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.038. DISTRIBUTION OF ASSISTANCE FUNDS. (a) If the | ||
| department determines that a county is eligible for assistance, the | ||
| department shall distribute funds appropriated to the department | ||
| from the indigent health care assistance fund or any other | ||
| available fund to the county to assist the county in providing: | ||
| (1) health care services under Sections 61.028 and | ||
| 61.0285 to its eligible county residents who qualify for assistance | ||
| as described by Section 61.037; or | ||
| (2) health care services provided through Medicaid as | ||
| described by Section 61.037(b-1). | ||
| (b) State funds provided under this section to a county must | ||
| be equal to at least 90 percent of the actual payment for the health | ||
| care services for the county's eligible residents, including any | ||
| payments made by the county for health care services provided | ||
| through Medicaid as described by Section 61.037(b-1), during the | ||
| remainder of the state fiscal year after the eight percent | ||
| expenditure level is reached. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
