Bill Text: TX SB2031 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the permissible uses of funds by a hospital district that receives a mandatory payment under Chapter 298E, Health & Safety Code.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-01 - Referred to Local Government [SB2031 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2031-Introduced.html
By: Eckhardt | S.B. No. 2031 | |
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relating to the permissible uses of funds by a hospital district | ||
that receives a mandatory payment under Chapter 298E, Health & | ||
Safety Code. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 298E.103(e), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, | ||
with respect to an intergovernmental transfer of funds described by | ||
Subsection (c)(1) made by a district, any funds received by the | ||
state, district, or other entity as a result of that transfer may | ||
not be used by the state, district, or any other entity to: | ||
(1) expand Medicaid eligibility under the Patient | ||
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148) as amended | ||
by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. | ||
No. 111-152); or | ||
(2) fund the nonfederal share of payments to hospitals | ||
available through [ |
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SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |