08 LC
35 1004S
The
House Committee on Health and Human Services offers the following substitute to
SB 479:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 31-8-159 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to reporting to the General Assembly on use of funds of the Indigent Care Trust
Fund, so as to include in the reporting related to the trust fund certain
information about fees for licensed ambulance services; to provide for related
matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 31-8-159 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
reporting to the General Assembly on use of funds of the Indigent Care Trust
Fund, is revised as follows:
"31-8-159.
(a)
The department shall annually report to the General Assembly on its use of trust
funds appropriated to the department pursuant to this article.
(b)
The department shall also provide an annual report no later than September 30 of
each year which shall provide the following information for the immediately
preceding fiscal year:
(1)
The amount of ambulance service license fees received by the department pursuant
to Code Section 31-11-31.1;
(2)
The amount of federal funds received as matching funds to the corresponding
ambulance service license fees received; and
(3)
The total amount of funds disbursed to emergency ambulance services from the
Indigent Care Trust Fund.
The
report required by this subsection shall be made available to the public free of
charge by electronic means and in such other manner as the department deems
appropriate."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2008.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.