FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2021

February 17, 2021

Mr. Speaker:

    Your STATE GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS AND INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

HOUSE BILL 112, as amended

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. Strike House Health and Human Services Committee Amendments 20 through 24.

     2. On page 5, line 9, after the period, insert a closing quotation mark.

     3. On page 5, lines 10 through 19, strike Subsection B in its entirety.

     4. On page 5, lines 20 through 25 and page 6, lines 1 through 5, strike Section 4 in its entirety and insert in lieu thereof the following:

     "SECTION 4. A new section of the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] NONDISCRIMINATION--INDIGENT PATIENTS.--Qualifying hospitals and hospitals with which a county contracts to provide for the services of indigent patients shall provide those services for indigent patients, including financial assistance, to all non-citizens regardless of immigration status, if they meet all other qualifying criteria for such services."".,