Bill Text: TX HCR111 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Urging Hidalgo County to reduce its tax rate upon establishment of the Hidalgo County Healthcare District.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-25 - Committee report printed and distributed [HCR111 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HCR111-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Guerra, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | H.C.R. No. 111 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 18, 2015; | ||
| May 18, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Intergovernmental Relations; May 25, 2015, reported favorably by | ||
| the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 25, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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| WHEREAS, The establishment of the Hidalgo County Healthcare | ||
| District will provide numerous benefits to the community, but | ||
| taxpayers should not be unduly burdened to fund the district; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Hidalgo County Healthcare District will serve | ||
| the insured and uninsured alike, while providing resources to | ||
| support a medical school, generating new revenue, and creating | ||
| jobs; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court supports the | ||
| formation of a county health care funding district, and it | ||
| anticipates that the district will provide a mechanism to receive | ||
| federal matching funds to support indigent health care services; as | ||
| a member of the district, the county will be eligible for Medicaid | ||
| reimbursements and matching funds it is not currently receiving; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, The district is intended to decrease the burden on | ||
| taxpayers by taking advantage of federal matching funds, and | ||
| underlying support for the district is the assumption that once it | ||
| is formed and operating, the county will reduce its own tax rate | ||
| accordingly; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 84th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby respectfully urge Hidalgo County to reduce its tax rate upon | ||
| establishment of the Hidalgo County Healthcare District; and, be it | ||
| further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the secretary of state forward official copies | ||
| of this resolution to the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court. | ||
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