Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 300C.0022. POWERS. (a) A district may authorize and administer a health care provider participation program in accordance with this chapter. (b) Notwithstanding Section 300A.0155, a district that complies with the provisions of this chapter may administer and operate a healt…

Sec. 300C.0023. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. (a) If three or more local governments adopt concurrent orders authorizing a health care provider participation district to operate under this chapter, the presiding officer of the governing body of each local government that created the distri…

Sec. 300C.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. (b) An employee of the district may not serve as a director. Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 525 (H.B. 3505…

Sec. 300C.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. 300C.0026. AUTHORITY TO SUE AND BE SUED. The board may sue and be sued on behalf of the district. Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 525 (H.B. 3505), Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2025.

Sec. 300C.0027. DISTRICT FINANCES. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, Subchapter F, Chapter 287, applies to a district in the same manner that the provisions of that subchapter apply to a health services district created under Chapter 287. (b) Sections 287.129 and …

Sec. 300C.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 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 525 (H.B. 3505), Sec. 1,…

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

Sec. 300C.0030. ACCOUNTING AFTER DISSOLUTION. After the district has paid or settled all its debts and has disposed of all its property and assets, including money, as prescribed by Section 300C.0029, the board shall provide an accounting to each local government that created the…

Sec. 300C.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. 300C.0052. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF BOARD TO REQUIRE MANDATORY PAYMENT. (a) 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. (b) The board may not r…

Sec. 300C.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. 300C.0054. INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER REPORTING. (a) 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 sub…

Sec. 300C.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. 300C.0102. LOCAL PROVIDER PARTICIPATION FUND; DEPOSITORY. (a) The board shall deposit all mandatory payments received by a district in the local provider participation fund created by the district under Chapter 300A. (b) The board may designate one or more banks as the depos…

Sec. 300C.0103. DEPOSITS TO FUND; AUTHORIZED USES OF MONEY. (a) The local provider participation fund described by Section 300C.0102 consists of: (1) all revenue received by the district attributable to mandatory payments authorized under this chapter, including any penalties and…

Sec. 300C.0104. ACCOUNTING. The district shall maintain an accounting of the money received from each local government that created the district, including a paying hospital located in a hospital district, county, or municipality that created the district, as applicable. Added by…

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

Sec. 300C.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. 300C.0155. AUTHORITY TO REFUSE FOR VIOLATION. The Health and Human Services Commission may refuse to accept money from a local provider participation fund administered under this chapter if the commission determines that acceptance of the money may violate federal law. Added…

Sec. 300C.0156. INTEREST AND PENALTIES. The district may impose and collect interest and penalties on delinquent mandatory payments assessed under this chapter in any amount that does not exceed the maximum amount authorized for other delinquent payments owed to the local governm…