Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 300A.0022. POWERS. A district may authorize and administer a health care provider participation program in accordance with this chapter. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 923 (H.B. 4289), Sec. 2, eff. June 10, 2019.

Sec. 300A.0023. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. (a) If three or more local governments create a district, the presiding officer of the governing body of each local government that creates the district shall appoint one director. (b) If two local governments create a district: (1) the presidi…

Sec. 300A.0024. QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE. (a) To be eligible to serve as a director, a person must be a resident of the local government that appoints the person under Section 300A.0023. (b) An employee of the district may not serve as a director. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., …

Sec. 300A.0025. COMPENSATION. (a) Directors and officers serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. (b) Expenses reimbursed under this section must be: (1) reported in the district's minute book or other di…

Sec. 300A.0026. AUTHORITY TO SUE AND BE SUED. The board may sue and be sued on behalf of the district. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 923 (H.B. 4289), Sec. 2, eff. June 10, 2019.

Sec. 300A.0027. DISTRICT FINANCES. Subchapter F, Chapter 287, other than Sections 287.129 and 287.130, applies to the district in the same manner that those provisions apply to a health services district created under Chapter 287. This section does not authorize the district to i…

Sec. 300A.0028. DISSOLUTION. A district shall be dissolved if the local governments that created the district adopt concurrent orders to dissolve the district and the concurrent orders contain identical provisions. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 923 (H.B. 4289), Sec. 2,…

Sec. 300A.0029. ADMINISTRATION OF PROPERTY, DEBTS, AND ASSETS AFTER DISSOLUTION. (a) After dissolution of a district under Section 300A.0028, the board shall continue to control and administer any property, debts, and assets of the district until all funds have been disposed of a…

Sec. 300A.0030. ACCOUNTING AFTER DISSOLUTION. After the district has paid all its debts and has disposed of all its assets and funds as prescribed by Section 300A.0029, the board shall provide an accounting to each local government that created the district. The accounting must s…

Sec. 300A.0051. HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PARTICIPATION PROGRAM. The board of a district may authorize the district to participate in a health care provider participation program on the affirmative vote of a majority of the board, subject to the provisions of this chapter. Added by Ac…

Sec. 300A.0052. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE MANDATORY PAYMENT. The board may require a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter by an institutional health care provider in the district only in the manner provided by this chapter. Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S.,…

Sec. 300A.0053. RULES AND PROCEDURES. The board may adopt rules relating to the administration of the health care provider participation program in the district, including collection of the mandatory payments, expenditures, audits, and any other administrative aspects of the prog…

Sec. 300A.0054. INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER REPORTING. If the board authorizes the district to participate in a health care provider participation program under this chapter, the board shall require each institutional health care provider located in the district to submit …

Sec. 300A.0101. HEARING. (a) In each year that the board authorizes a health care provider participation program under this chapter, the board shall hold a public hearing on the amounts of any mandatory payments that the board intends to require during the year and how the revenu…

Sec. 300A.0102. LOCAL PROVIDER PARTICIPATION FUND; DEPOSITORY. (a) If the board collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter, the board shall create a local provider participation fund in one or more banks designated by the district as a depository for the mandatory…

Sec. 300A.0103. DEPOSITS TO FUND; AUTHORIZED USES OF MONEY. (a) The local provider participation fund established under Section 300A.0102 consists of: (1) all revenue received by the district attributable to mandatory payments authorized under this chapter; (2) money received fro…

Sec. 300A.0104. ACCOUNTING OF FUNDS. The district shall maintain an accounting of the funds received from each local government that creates the district, including a paying hospital located in a hospital district, county, or municipality that created the district, as applicable.…

Sec. 300A.0151. MANDATORY PAYMENTS BASED ON PAYING HOSPITAL NET PATIENT REVENUE. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), if the board authorizes a health care provider participation program under this chapter, the district shall require an annual mandatory payment to be assesse…

Sec. 300A.0152. ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF MANDATORY PAYMENTS. (a) The district may designate an official of the district or contract with another person to assess and collect the mandatory payments authorized under this chapter. (b) The person charged by the district with the …

Sec. 300A.0153. CORRECTION OF INVALID PROVISION OR PROCEDURE; LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY. (a) This chapter does not authorize the district to collect mandatory payments for the purpose of raising general revenue or any amount in excess of the amount reasonably necessary to: (1) fund…

Sec. 300A.0154. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. (a) The board of a district that authorizes a program under this chapter shall report information to the Health and Human Services Commission regarding the program on a schedule determined by the commission. (b) The information must include…

Sec. 300A.0155. EXPIRATION OF AUTHORITY. The authority of a district to administer and operate a program under this chapter expires on September 1 following the second anniversary of the date the board of the district authorized the district to participate in the program as provi…

Sec. 300A.0156. AUTHORITY TO REFUSE FOR VIOLATION. The Health and Human Services Commission may refuse to accept money from a local provider participation fund established under this chapter if the commission determines that doing so may violate federal law. Added by Acts 2019, 8…