Bill Text: TX HB1477 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the use of grants under the emergency medical services assistance program and the distribution of certain revenue received by the comptroller.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-14 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB1477 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1477-Engrossed.html
86R28607 EAS-F | ||
By: Price, et al. | H.B. No. 1477 |
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relating to the use of grants under the emergency medical services | ||
assistance program and the distribution of certain revenue received | ||
by the comptroller. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 773.251, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows: | ||
(4) "Scholarship program" means the Emergency Medical | ||
Services Scholarship Program established under Section 773.2555. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 773.252(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The program includes grants to: | ||
(1) eligible emergency medical services providers; | ||
(2) trauma service area regional advisory councils; | ||
(3) provide funding for [ |
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curriculum to train [ |
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services personnel; and | ||
(4) provide funding for the scholarship program. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 773.253(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this subchapter, including rules for: | ||
(1) determining eligibility under the program; | ||
(2) establishing requirements for the educational | ||
curriculum; [ |
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(3) establishing requirements for a general academic | ||
teaching institution, medical and dental unit, other agency of | ||
higher education, or public technical institute that develops and | ||
offers the educational curriculum; and | ||
(4) determining eligibility under the scholarship | ||
program and the coursework that qualifies for a scholarship awarded | ||
under the scholarship program. | ||
SECTION 4. Subchapter I, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.2555 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 773.2555. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SCHOLARSHIP | ||
PROGRAM. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish | ||
the Emergency Medical Services Scholarship Program to provide | ||
financial assistance to emergency medical services personnel to pay | ||
tuition and other applicable fees for eligible coursework, as | ||
determined in accordance with the rules adopted under this | ||
subchapter, at institutions of higher education. | ||
(b) Emergency medical services personnel may apply to the | ||
department in the form and manner provided by executive | ||
commissioner rule to receive a scholarship under the scholarship | ||
program. | ||
(c) If the department determines an applicant is eligible | ||
for assistance under the scholarship program, the department may | ||
provide a grant under Section 773.257 to the applicant. | ||
SECTION 5. The heading to Section 773.257, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 773.257. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSISTANCE | ||
PROGRAM ACCOUNT; GRANTS. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 773.257(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The emergency medical services assistance program | ||
account is created as a dedicated account in the general revenue | ||
fund of the state treasury. Money in the account may be appropriated | ||
only to the department [ |
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grants, in addition to funding available from other sources, to: | ||
(1) emergency medical services providers applying for | ||
assistance under the program; | ||
(2) trauma service area regional advisory councils; | ||
(3) [ |
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teaching institution, medical and dental unit, other agency of | ||
higher education, or public technical institute offering the | ||
educational curriculum under this subchapter; or | ||
(4) emergency medical services personnel applying for | ||
assistance under the scholarship program. | ||
SECTION 7. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(g) Of the money received by the comptroller under this | ||
section, the comptroller shall deposit: | ||
(1) 57 [ |
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portion of the general revenue fund; [ |
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(2) 33 percent to the credit of the designated trauma | ||
facility and emergency medical services account under Section | ||
780.003, Health and Safety Code; and | ||
(3) 10 percent to the credit of the emergency medical | ||
services assistance program account created under Section 773.257, | ||
Health and Safety Code. | ||
SECTION 8. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the | ||
changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 9. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to the distribution of revenue | ||
collected on or after the effective date of this Act. The | ||
distribution of revenue collected before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the revenue was | ||
collected, and that law is continued in effect for the purpose of | ||
the distribution of that revenue. | ||
SECTION 10. The Department of State Health Services is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the department may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 11. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |