H.B. No. 1924




AN ACT

relating to the certification of certain health organizations by 
the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 162.001, Occupations Code, is amended by 
adding Subsections (c-1), (c-2), and (c-3) to read as follows:
	(c-1)  The board shall certify a health organization to 
contract with or employ physicians licensed by the board if the 
organization:
		(1)  is a hospital district:                                           
			(A)  recognized by a federal agency as a public 
entity eligible to receive a grant related to a community or 
federally qualified health center described by Subdivision (2); and
			(B)  located in a county that, according to the 
most recent federal decennial census, has a population of 650,000 
or more and that borders the United Mexican States; and
		(2)  is organized and operated as:                                     
			(A)  a migrant, community, or homeless health 
center under the authority of and in compliance with 42 U.S.C. 
Section 254b or 254c; or
			(B)  a federally qualified health center under 42 
U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B).
	(c-2)  This section applies to a hospital district described 
by Subsection (c-1) only in relation to the hospital district's 
operations as a community or federally qualified health center 
described by Subsection (c-1)(2).
	(c-3)  This subsection, Subsection (c-1), and Subsection 
(c-2) expire September 1, 2007.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1924 was passed by the House on April 
6, 2005, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in 
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1924 on May 18, 2005, by a non-record 
vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 1924 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 16, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 26, Nays 
4.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor