Sec. 531.078. QUALITY ASSURANCE FEES ON CERTAIN WAIVER PROGRAM SERVICES

(a) In this section, "gross receipts" means money received as compensation for services under an intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded waiver program such as a home and community services waiver or a community living assistance and support services waiver. The term does not include a charitable contribution, revenues received for services or goods other than waivers, or any money received from consumers or their families as reimbursement for services or goods not normally covered by the waivers.

(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall modify the quality assurance fee program under Subchapter H, Chapter 252, Health and Safety Code, by providing for a quality assurance fee program that imposes a quality assurance fee on persons providing services under a home and community services waiver or a community living assistance and support services waiver.

(c) The executive commissioner shall establish the fee at an amount that will produce annual revenues of not more than six percent of the total annual gross receipts in this state.

(d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules governing:

(1) the reporting required to compute and collect the fee and the manner and times of collecting the fee; and

(2) the administration of the fee, including the imposition of penalties for a violation of the rules.

(e) Fees collected under this section shall be deposited in the waiver program quality assurance fee account.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 896 , Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.