Texas Health And Safety Code Title 4, Chapter 297 - County Health Care Provider Participation Program In Certain Counties Containing A Military Base

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 297.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Institutional health care provider" means a nonpublic hospital licensed under Chapter 241. (2) "Paying hospital" means an institutional health care provider...
• Texas Section 297.002 - Applicability
  This chapter applies only to a county: (1) that is not served by a hospital district or a public hospital; (2) on which a military...

SUBCHAPTER B POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS COURT

• Texas Section 297.003 - County Health Care Provider Participation Program; Participation In Program
  (a) A county health care provider participation program authorizes a county to collect a mandatory payment from each institutional health care provider located in the...
• Texas Section 297.051 - Limitation On Authority To Require Mandatory Payment
  The commissioners court of a county may require a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter by an institutional health care provider in the county only...
• Texas Section 297.052 - Majority Vote Required
  The commissioners court of a county may not authorize the county to collect a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter without an affirmative vote of...
• Texas Section 297.053 - Rules And Procedures
  After the commissioners court has voted to require a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter, the commissioners court may adopt rules relating to the administration...

SUBCHAPTER C GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 297.054 - Institutional Health Care Provider Reporting; Inspection Of Records
  (a) The commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter shall require each institutional health care provider to submit...
• Texas Section 297.101 - Hearing
  (a) Each year, the commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter shall hold a public hearing on the...
• Texas Section 297.102 - Depository
  (a) The commissioners court of each county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter by resolution shall designate one or more banks located...

SUBCHAPTER D MANDATORY PAYMENTS

• Texas Section 297.103 - Local Provider Participation Fund; Authorized Uses Of Money
  (a) Each county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter shall create a local provider participation fund. (b) The local provider participation fund...
• Texas Section 297.151 - Mandatory Payments Based On Paying Hospital Net Patient Revenue
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter may require an...
• Texas Section 297.152 - Assessment And Collection Of Mandatory Payments
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the county tax assessor-collector shall collect the mandatory payment authorized under this chapter. The county tax assessor-collector shall...
• Texas Section 297.153 - Interest, Penalties, And Discounts
  Interest, penalties, and discounts on mandatory payments required under this chapter are governed by the law applicable to county ad valorem taxes. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 297.154 - Purpose; Correction Of Invalid Provision Or Procedure
  (a) The purpose of this chapter is to generate revenue by collecting from institutional health care providers a mandatory payment to be used to provide...

Last modified: September 28, 2016