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• CHAPTER 293C. COUNTY HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PARTICIPATION PROGRAM IN CERTAIN COUNTIES NOT BORDERING CERTAIN POPULOUS COUNTIES SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 293C.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Institutional health care provider" means a nonpublic hospital that provides inpatient hospital services. (2) "Paying hospital" means an institutional health care provider required to make a mandatory payment under this chapter. (3) "Program" means a county health care provider participation program authorized by this chapter. Sec. 293C.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to a county that: (1) is not served by a hospital district or a public hospital; (2) has a population of more than 125,000 and less than 140,000; and (3) is not adjacent to a county with a population of one million or more. Sec. 293C.003. COUNTY HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PARTICIPATION 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 county to be deposited in a local provider participation fund established by the county. Money in the fund may be used by the county to fund certain intergovernmental transfers and indigent care programs as provided by this chapter. (b) The commissioners court of a county may adopt an order authorizing the county to participate in the program, subject to the limitations provided by this chapter. SUBCHAPTER B. POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS COURT Sec. 293C.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 in the manner provided by this chapter. Sec. 293C.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 a majority of the members of the commissioners court. Sec. 293C.053. RULES AND PROCEDURES. After the commissioners court of a county has voted to require a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter, the commissioners court may adopt rules relating to the administration of the mandatory payment. Sec. 293C.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 located in the county to submit to the county a copy of any financial and utilization data required by and reported to the Department of State Health Services under Sections 311.032 and 311.033 and any rules adopted by the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission to implement those sections. (b) The commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter may inspect the records of an institutional health care provider to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with the requirements of Subsection (a). SUBCHAPTER C. GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS Sec. 293C.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 amounts of any mandatory payments that the commissioners court intends to require during the year. (b) Not later than the fifth day before the date of the hearing required under Subsection (a), the commissioners court of the county shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. (c) A representative of a paying hospital is entitled to appear at the public hearing and be heard regarding any matter related to the mandatory payments authorized under this chapter. Sec. 293C.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 in

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