Text of section effective on April 01, 2025
Sec. 548.0353.  USE OF PROGRAM GRANT.  A nonurban health care facility awarded a grant under this subchapter may use grant money to:
(1)  purchase equipment necessary for implementing a telemedicine medical service;
(2)  modernize the facility's information technology infrastructure and secure information technology support to ensure an uninterrupted two-way video signal that is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No. 104-191);
(3)  pay a service fee to a pediatric tele-specialty provider under an annual contract with the provider; or
(4)  pay for other activities, services, supplies, facilities, resources, and equipment the commission determines necessary for the facility to use a telemedicine medical service.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.