Bill Text: TX SB847 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain hospital districts to contract for the performance of administrative functions and services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB847 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB847-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 847 | ||
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| relating to the authority of certain hospital districts to contract | ||
| for the performance of administrative functions and services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 281, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 281.0512 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 281.0512. CONTRACT TO PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
| federally qualified health center as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 1396d(l)(2)(B) or a federally qualified health center look-alike | ||
| organized and operated under the authority of and in compliance | ||
| with 42 U.S.C. Section 254b that is substantially devoted to | ||
| providing services to socially and economically disadvantaged | ||
| individuals in the geographical area of the district. | ||
| (b) The board may contract with a federally qualified health | ||
| center or a federally qualified health center look-alike to perform | ||
| for the center administrative functions and services that the | ||
| district and the center may perform independently. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 847 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 14, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 847 passed the House on | ||
| May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
