Bill Text: TX HB4801 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the establishment of a grant program to allow the Nueces County Hospital District to recruit and retain certain medical professionals.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4801 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB4801-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Villalobos | H.B. No. 4801 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4801: | |||
| By: Bell of Montgomery | C.S.H.B. No. 4801 | ||
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| relating to authorizing the establishment of a grant program to | ||
| allow the Nueces County Hospital District to recruit and retain | ||
| certain medical professionals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 281.094(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) With the approval of the Nueces County Commissioners | ||
| Court, the board of the Nueces County Hospital District may use | ||
| funds made available to the district from sources other than a tax | ||
| levy to fund: | ||
| (1) health care services, including public health | ||
| services, mental health services, intellectual disability | ||
| services, emergency medical services, health services provided to | ||
| persons confined in jail facilities, and for other health related | ||
| purposes; and | ||
| (2) a grant program established under Section | ||
| 281.0941. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 281, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 281.0941 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 281.0941. NUECES COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT PHYSICIAN | ||
| RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION GRANT PROGRAM. (a) The board of the | ||
| Nueces County Hospital District may establish and administer a | ||
| grant program for hospitals located in the hospital district to | ||
| provide the funding necessary to: | ||
| (1) allow hospitals in the district to: | ||
| (A) retain physicians currently practicing at | ||
| those hospitals; and | ||
| (B) recruit physicians who practice medicine in a | ||
| specialty or subspecialty providing treatment for the most common | ||
| and critical health care needs of the residents of the hospital | ||
| district to practice at those hospitals; and | ||
| (2) increase the number of residency positions at | ||
| hospitals in the district. | ||
| (b) If the board of the hospital district establishes a | ||
| grant program under this section, the board shall adopt rules to | ||
| ensure the grant is used in a manner that is consistent with the | ||
| public purpose of providing medical aid and hospital care for the | ||
| indigent and needy individuals residing in the district, including | ||
| rules: | ||
| (1) prescribing the manner in which a hospital in the | ||
| district may apply for a grant under this section; | ||
| (2) establishing eligibility and selection criteria | ||
| for a hospital to be awarded a grant under this section; | ||
| (3) establishing accountability controls for | ||
| hospitals awarded a grant under this section to ensure the district | ||
| receives a benefit in return for the award of the grant; and | ||
| (4) relating to any other aspect of the program the | ||
| board determines necessary for the program's administration. | ||
| (c) The board of the hospital district may not use money | ||
| received by the district under Chapter 298C to fund a grant awarded | ||
| under this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
