By: Alvarado, et al.  S.B. No. 1966          (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2023; March 21, 2023, read   first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;   April 20, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,   Nays 2; April 20, 2023, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to a grant program for school-based health care   initiatives established to serve certain underserved students.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is   amended by adding Section 531.0606 to read as follows:          Sec. 531.0606.  SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE GRANT PROGRAM. (a)   In this section, "program" means the school-based health care grant   program established under this section.          (b)  Using legislative appropriations available for that   purpose, the commission shall establish and administer a grant   program for health care organizations to implement, maintain, and   expand a school-based health care initiative for underserved   students and to provide those students with preventative, primary,   and behavioral health care, including:                (1)  medical services;                (2)  dental services;                (3)  therapeutic services; and                (4)  nonmedical services, such as nutritional   services.          (c)  The commission shall establish grant application   procedures, criteria for evaluating applications and awarding   grants, and procedures for monitoring the use of grants awarded   under the program and ensuring compliance with any condition of a   grant awarded under the program.          (d)  A grant recipient must use grant money to establish a   school-based health care initiative for a school district that has   a student population with at least 50 percent of its students who:                (1)  are uninsured or underinsured; or                (2)  receive free or reduced-price lunches.          (e)  The commission may award a grant under the program only   in accordance with a contract between the commission and a grant   recipient.  The contract must include provisions granting the   commission sufficient control over the money awarded to ensure the   public purpose of providing health care services to underserved   students is accomplished and this state receives the return   benefit.          SECTION 2.  The Health and Human Services Commission 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 commission may, but is not required to, implement a   provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that   purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.     * * * * *