H.B. No. 2618




AN ACT

relating to county expenditures for certain health care services.             
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 61.036(c), Health and Safety Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(c)  Regardless of the application, documentation, and 
verification procedures or eligibility standards established by 
the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an 
expenditure for an eligible resident toward eligibility for state 
assistance if the eligible resident received the health care 
services at:
		(1)  a hospital maintained or operated by a state 
agency that has a contract with the county to provide health care 
services; or
		(2)  a federally qualified health center delivering 
federally qualified health center services, as those terms are 
defined in 42 U.S.C. Sections 1396d(l)(2)(A) and (B), that has a 
contract with the county to provide health care services.
	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. 2618 was passed by the House on May 
13, 2005, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2618 was passed by the Senate on May 
25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor