Texas SB 504: Relating to a "Texas solution" to reforming and addressing issues related to the Medicaid program, including the creation of an alternative program designed to ensure health benefit plan coverage to certain low-income individuals through the private marketplace; requiring a fee.

Bill Text

89(R) SB 504 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

  

  

  

 By: Kolkhorst, et al.
 S.B. No. 504

  

  
 (Troxclair)

  

  
  

  

   

 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

  

 AN ACT

  

 relating to the disclosure of certain financial information by 

  

 certain nonprofit organizations that enter into sizeable contracts 

  

 with political subdivisions.

  

        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

  

        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 2252, Government Code, is 

  

 amended by adding Section 2252.902 to read as follows:

  

        Sec. 2252.902.  CONTRACTS WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. (a) 

  

 In this section:

  

              (1)  "Economic development corporation" means:

  

                    (A)  a Type A corporation governed by Chapter 504, 

  

 Local Government Code; and

  

                    (B)  a Type B corporation governed by Chapter 505 

  

 of that code.

  

              (2)  "Nonprofit organization" means an organization 

  

 that is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a), 

  

 Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed as an exempt 

  

 organization in Section 501(c) of that code. The term includes an 

  

 economic development corporation.

  

              (3)  "Political subdivision" means a county, 

  

 municipality, or economic development corporation.

  

              (4)  "State agency" means a department, commission, 

  

 board, office, or other entity in the executive, legislative, or 

  

 judicial branch of state government.  The term does not include an 

  

 institution of higher education or a university system as defined 

  

 by Section 61.003, Education Code.

  

        (b)  This section applies only to a contract between a 

  

 nonprofit organization and a political subdivision that has an 

  

 annual value of more than $500,000.

  

        (c)  This section does not apply to a nonprofit organization 

  

 that is:

  

              (1)  an electric cooperative as defined by Section 

  

 11.003, Utilities Code;

  

              (2)  an organization certified as an independent 

  

 organization under Section 39.151, Utilities Code; or

  

              (3)  a water supply corporation created and operating 

  

 under Chapter 67, Water Code.

  

        (d)  A nonprofit organization that enters into a contract 

  

 with a political subdivision shall provide the following 

  

 information to the political subdivision when the contract is 

  

 entered into, and shall update the information not later than the 

  

 30th day of each fiscal year of the organization until the contract 

  

 expires:

  

              (1)  the organization's operating budget for the 

  

 current fiscal year; and

  

              (2)  the salary of each employee of the organization 

  

 that exceeds 200 percent of the median salary of state employees.

  

        (e)  A political subdivision that maintains an Internet 

  

 website shall publish and maintain the information received under 

  

 Subsection (d) on the website.

  

        (f)  For the purposes of this section, the comptroller shall 

  

 determine the median salary paid each state fiscal year from the 

  

 state treasury to employees of a state agency. The comptroller's 

  

 determination must be published on the comptroller's Internet