S.B. No. 872

	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, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
	(d)  Regardless of the application, documentation, and
	verification procedures or eligibility standards established by
	the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an
	intergovernmental transfer to the state toward eligibility for
	state assistance if the transfer was made to provide health care
	services as part of the Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality
	Improvement Program waiver issued under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315.
	(e)  A county may credit toward eligibility for state
	assistance intergovernmental transfers made under Subsection (d)
	that in the aggregate do not exceed four percent of the county's
	general revenue levy in any state fiscal year, provided:
	(1)  the commissioners court determines that the
	expenditure fulfills the county's obligations to provide indigent
	health care under this chapter;
	(2)  the commissioners court determines that the amount
	of care available through participation in the waiver is sufficient
	in type and amount to meet the requirements of this chapter; and
	(3)  the county receives periodic reports from health
	care providers that receive supplemental or incentive payments
	under the Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement
	Program waiver that document the number and types of services
	provided to persons who are eligible to receive services under this
	chapter.
	SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2014, the Department
	of State Health Services shall submit a report to the governor, the
	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
	representatives on the effects of the provisions of this Act on
	services rendered to eligible residents under Chapter 61, Health
	and Safety Code.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act to
	Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, applies only to state
	assistance for health care services under Chapter 61, Health and
	Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that are delivered on or after
	the effective date of this Act.
	(b)  State assistance for health care services under Chapter
	61, Health and Safety Code, that are delivered before the effective
	date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
	before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
	effect for that purpose.
	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, 2013.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 872 passed the Senate on
	April 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 872 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 148,
	Nays 0, two present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	______________________________
	Governor