Bill Text: TX HB4900 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a charitable clinic grant program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Health Care Reform, Select [HB4900 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4900-Introduced.html
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By: Jetton | H.B. No. 4900 |
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relating to the establishment of a charitable clinic grant program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 54 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 54. CHARITABLE CLINIC GRANT PROGRAM | ||
Sec. 54.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Charitable clinic" means a private, nonprofit, | ||
community-based organization that provides health care services to | ||
low-income, underinsured, or uninsured persons at nominal or no | ||
cost through the use of volunteer health care professionals and | ||
health care professional partnerships. | ||
(2) "Program" means the charitable clinic grant | ||
program established under this chapter. | ||
Sec. 54.002. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PROGRAM. | ||
(a) The commission shall establish and administer a charitable | ||
clinic grant program through which the commission awards grants to | ||
eligible charitable clinics to provide or expand the provision of | ||
health care services to low-income, underinsured, and uninsured | ||
persons. | ||
(b) The commission may award a grant under the program only | ||
in accordance with a contract between the commission and a grant | ||
recipient. The contract must include provisions granting the | ||
commission sufficient control over the money awarded to ensure the | ||
public purpose of providing health care services to low-income, | ||
underinsured, and uninsured persons is accomplished and this state | ||
receives the return benefit. | ||
(c) The commission shall award grants under the program to | ||
charitable clinics to: | ||
(1) increase the clinic's patient capacity; | ||
(2) improve the clinic's organization, efficiency, and | ||
effectiveness; and | ||
(3) expand the clinic's provision of health care | ||
services. | ||
Sec. 54.003. APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. (a) | ||
The commission shall establish application and eligibility | ||
requirements for a charitable clinic to satisfy in order to qualify | ||
for a grant award under the program. | ||
(b) A charitable clinic must include in an application for a | ||
grant under this program the specific uses the clinic has for the | ||
grant money, which may include the use of grant money for: | ||
(1) equipment and technology-related resources; | ||
(2) expansion of the clinic premises or services; | ||
(3) health care and administrative costs; and | ||
(4) staff training and professional development | ||
costs. | ||
Sec. 54.004. REVIEW COMMITTEE. (a) The commission shall | ||
establish a review committee to review and score grant applications | ||
submitted under the program for the commission's use in awarding | ||
grants under the program. | ||
(b) The review committee must be composed of volunteers with | ||
appropriate expertise who represent diverse nonprofit and | ||
philanthropic backgrounds. | ||
(c) To ensure fairness in the review process, the commission | ||
shall redact charitable clinic name and location information from | ||
the grant applications the review committee reviews and scores. | ||
Sec. 54.005. MONTHLY REPORTS. A grant recipient shall | ||
submit to the commission each month a report that includes | ||
information for the preceding month on: | ||
(1) the total number of new clients treated by the | ||
charitable clinic; | ||
(2) the total amount of fees the clinic charged | ||
clients; | ||
(3) whether Medicaid, the Medicare program, or a | ||
private insurer was billed for health care services provided to a | ||
client and the amount billed; | ||
(4) the number of volunteers, including health care | ||
professionals, who assisted the clinic; | ||
(5) the number of prescription drugs dispensed or | ||
prescribed; | ||
(6) outcome data on: | ||
(A) the effectiveness and quality of health care | ||
services provided by the clinic; and | ||
(B) the percentage of clients who successfully | ||
completed treatment; and | ||
(7) the clinic's organizational successes, | ||
difficulties, delays, or barriers. | ||
Sec. 54.006. FUNDING. (a) The commission shall award | ||
grants under the program in accordance with this chapter from | ||
available money and any additional money appropriated for the | ||
purposes of the program. | ||
(b) The commission may accept gifts, grants, and donations | ||
from any source that are made available for the purposes of the | ||
program. | ||
Sec. 54.007. RULES. The executive commissioner shall adopt | ||
rules to implement this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2024, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt the rules necessary to implement Chapter 54, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |