Title GV, Government Code

Sec. 487.451. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Health care professional" means: (A) an advanced nurse practitioner; (B) a dentist; (C) a dental hygienist; (D) a laboratory technician; (E) a licensed vocational nurse; (F) a licensed professional counselor; (G) a medical radio…

Sec. 487.452. COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE AWARENESS AND MENTORING PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS. (a) Subject to available funding, the department, in collaboration with Area Health Education Center Programs, shall establish a community healthcare awareness and mentoring program for students to: …

Sec. 487.453. ADMINISTRATION. (a) The department shall administer or contract for the administration of the program. (b) The department may solicit and accept gifts, grants, donations, and contributions to support the program. (c) The department may administer the program in coop…

Sec. 487.454. GRANTS; ELIGIBILITY. (a) Subject to available funding, the department shall develop and implement, as a component of the program, a grant program to support employment opportunities in rural and underserved urban areas in this state for students participating in tra…

Sec. 487.501. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Rural community" means a rural area as defined by the department. (2) "Medical school" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.501, Education Code. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1112, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Redesignated…

Sec. 487.502. GIFTS AND GRANTS. The department may accept gifts, grants, and donations to support the rural physician recruitment program. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1112, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Redesignated from Health and Safety Code Sec. 106.252 and amended by Act…

Sec. 487.503. RURAL PHYSICIAN RECRUITMENT PROGRAM. (a) Subject to available funding, the department shall establish a process in consultation with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for selecting Texas medical schools to recruit students from rural communities and enco…

Sec. 487.551. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Health professional" means a person other than a physician who holds a license, certificate, registration, permit, or other form of authorization required by law or a state agency rule that must be obtained by an individual to p…

Sec. 487.553. LOAN REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM. Subject to available funding, the department shall establish a program to assist communities in recruiting health professionals to practice in medically underserved communities by providing loan reimbursement for health professionals who …

Sec. 487.554. STIPEND PROGRAM. (a) Subject to available funding, the department shall establish a program to assist communities in recruiting health professionals to practice in medically underserved communities by providing a stipend to health professionals who agree to serve in…

Sec. 487.555. CONTRACT REQUIRED. (a) A health professional may receive assistance under this subchapter only if the health professional signs a contract agreeing to provide health care services in a medically underserved community. (b) A student in a degree program preparing to b…

Sec. 487.556. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT. (a) The department shall adopt rules necessary for the administration of this subchapter, including guidelines for: (1) developing contracts under which loan reimbursement or stipend recipients provide services to qualifying communit…

Sec. 487.557. USE OF TELECOMMUNICATION AND TELEMEDICINE. A health professional who participates in a program under this subchapter may not use telecommunication technology, including telemedicine, as the sole or primary method of providing services and may not use telecommunicati…

Sec. 487.558. PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND. (a) The permanent endowment fund for the rural communities health care investment program is a special fund in the treasury outside the general revenue fund. (b) The fund is composed of: (1) money transferred to the fund at the direction of…

Sec. 487.559. ADMINISTRATION AND USE OF FUND. (a) The department may administer the permanent endowment fund for the rural communities health care investment program. If the department elects not to administer the fund, the comptroller shall administer the fund. (b) The administr…

Sec. 487.560. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. The department shall provide a report on the permanent endowment fund for the rural communities health care investment program to the Legislative Budget Board not later than November 1 of each year. The report must include the total amount of …

Sec. 487.601. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state under Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code. (2) "Relief services" means the temporary coverage of a physician's practice by another physician for a predeterm…

Sec. 487.602. RURAL PHYSICIAN RELIEF PROGRAM. Subject to available funding, the department shall create a program to provide affordable relief services to rural physicians practicing in the fields of general family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics to fa…

Sec. 487.603. FEES. (a) The department shall charge a fee for rural physicians to participate in the program. (b) The fees collected under this section shall be deposited in a special account in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only to the department for administ…

Sec. 487.604. FUNDING. The department may solicit and accept gifts, grants, donations, and contributions to support the program. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 609, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (H.B. 1918), Sec. 78, eff. Septembe…

Sec. 487.605. RELIEF PHYSICIAN'S EXPENSES. The department shall pay a physician providing relief under the program using fees collected by the center. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 609, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (H.B. 1918), …

Sec. 487.606. PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT OF RELIEF PHYSICIANS. (a) The department shall assign physicians to provide relief to a rural area in accordance with the following priorities: (1) solo practitioners; (2) counties that have fewer than seven residents per square mile; (3) countie…

Sec. 487.607. RELIEF PHYSICIAN RECRUITMENT. The department shall actively recruit physicians to participate in the program as relief physicians. The department shall concentrate on recruiting physicians involved in an accredited residency program in general pediatrics, general in…

Sec. 487.651. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) "Community telecommunications alliance" means an association of public and private entities created to share resources, promote innovative school health technology, promote economic development opportunities for the community, an…

Sec. 487.652. RULES GOVERNING PROGRAM. (a) Subject to available funding, the community telecommunications alliance program shall: (1) assist local communities in the creation and development of community telecommunications alliances, including alliances established to pursue rura…

Sec. 487.654. PROHIBITION. A community telecommunications alliance may not directly or indirectly: (1) provide telecommunications or information services to the public; (2) resell or share telecommunications or information services obtained through grants or loans received under …

Sec. 487.751. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "rural county" means a county that has a population of not more than 125,000. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 712 (H.B. 2235), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007. Renumbered from Government Code, Section 487.701 by Acts 2009, 81st Le…

Sec. 487.752. GRANT PROGRAM. (a) Subject to available funds, the department shall establish a grant program under which the department awards grants to public institutions of higher education, public high schools, and governmental entities located in a rural county for the develo…

Sec. 487.753. FUNDING. The department may seek, receive, and spend money received through an appropriation, grant, donation, or reimbursement from any public or private source to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 712 (H.B. 2235), Sec. 1, eff. Jun…

Sec. 488.001. COALITION ESTABLISHMENT. The Southeast Texas Biotechnology Park Coalition is established. The coalition is composed of public and private health-related institutions, and other private for-profit and nonprofit and governmental institutions, and is established for th…

Sec. 488.002. PURPOSE; LOCATION. (a) The park shall be operated for the purposes of: (1) furthering the mission of the coalition members; (2) economic development of the state, including the production of net revenue to the state and coalition members, from the commercialization …

Sec. 488.003. COALITION MEMBERS. The membership of the coalition may include any interested governmental or private for-profit or nonprofit institution, including: (1) Baylor College of Medicine; (2) Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; (3) M…

Sec. 488.004. NONPROFIT CORPORATION. The coalition may establish a nonprofit corporation to develop and operate the park. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 574, Sec. 1, eff. June 11, 2001.

Sec. 488.005. LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE. The park may be developed on land owned by the State of Texas and made available for that purpose, as well as on land acquired by the state, the nonprofit corporation, or a member institution for purposes of the park. Added by Acts 2001, 77t…

Sec. 488.006. INVESTMENT; FUNDING. (a) The park shall be developed as a public-private partnership in which both public institutions and private entities contribute to the development, funding, and operation of the park. (b) Leases producing revenue to state institutions particip…

Sec. 489.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Bank" means the Texas Economic Development Bank established under Section 489.101. (2) "Fund" means the Texas economic development bank fund. (3) "Office" means the Texas Economic Development and Tourism Office. Added by Acts 2003,…

Sec. 489.002. RULES. The office shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 814, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. SUBCHAPTER B. CREATION AND OPERATION OF BANK; TEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK FUND

Sec. 489.101. CREATION OF BANK. (a) The office shall establish the Texas Economic Development Bank for the purpose of: (1) providing globally competitive, cost-effective state incentives to expanding businesses operating in this state and businesses relocating to this state; and …

Sec. 489.102. POWERS AND DUTIES OF BANK. (a) The bank shall offer a variety of financial incentives to help communities and businesses in this state compete and succeed in the global marketplace. The bank shall assist communities in accessing financing with which to fund their ec…

Sec. 489.103. FEES. The bank shall charge fees to the beneficiaries of its services as the bank determines necessary. Amounts collected under this section may be used to support the administration of the bank's programs and implementation of the bank's strategies. Added by Acts 2…

Sec. 489.104. ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES. The bank may allocate its resources as necessary to efficiently meet the level of demand experienced by: (1) each program or service described by Section 489.108; and (2) the Texas Department of Transportation under Section 489.102(b)(7). Ad…

Sec. 489.105. TEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK FUND. (a) The Texas economic development bank fund is a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. (b) The fund consists of: (1) appropriations for the implementation and administration of this chapter; (2) fees charged under Subc…

Sec. 489.106. ADMINISTRATION OF FUND AND CHAPTER. The office shall administer the fund. In administering the fund and this chapter, the office has the powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including the power to: (1) make, execute, and deliver contracts, con…

Sec. 489.107. ANNUAL REPORT. (a) On or before January 1 of each year, the office shall submit to the legislature an annual status report on the activities of the bank. (b) The report under Subsection (a) must include for each program administered by the office: (1) the number of …

Sec. 489.108. PROGRAMS, SERVICES, AND FUNDS UNDER BANK'S DIRECTION. Notwithstanding any other law, the bank shall perform the duties and functions of the office with respect to the following programs, services, and funds: (1) the original capital access program established under …

Sec. 489.151. STATE LIABILITY PROHIBITED. The state and state officers or employees are not liable to participants for grants, loans, or other transactions under this chapter except as specifically provided by law. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 814, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, …