General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second, Third and Fourth Called Sessions of the Sixty-Second Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Third Legislature Page: 108
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63rd LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION
lishing, developing, and providing such programs or facilities and serv-
ices as may be necessary or desirable, including those jointly adminis-
tered with state agencies;
(2) Enter into reciprocal agreements with other states;
(3) Establish or construct rehabilitation facilities and workshops,
make grants to public agencies, make contracts or other arrangements
with public and other nonprofit agencies, organizations, or institutions
for the establishment of workshops and rehabilitation facilities, and
operate facilities for carrying out the purposes of this Act;
(4) Conduct research and compile statistics relating to the provi-
sion of kidney care services or to the need for such services by disabled
or handicapped individuals;
(5) Provide for the establishment, supervision, management and
control of kidney care facilities;
(6) Contract with schools, hospitals, private individuals, corpora-
tions and other agencies and with doctors, nurses, technicians and other
persons for training, physical restoration, transportation and other
services necessary in connection with the treatment and care of per-
sons suffering from kidney diseases.
Sec. 5. The board shall make agreements, arrangements, or plans
to cooperate with the federal government in carrying out the purposes of
this Act or of any federal statute or rule or regulation promulgated
pursuant thereto pertaining to the prevention, care or treatment of
kidney diseases or the care or treatment or rehabilitation of persons
suffering from kidney diseases, and to this end may adopt such rules,
regulations or methods of administration as are found by the federal
government to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of
such agreements, arrangements, or plans for the prevention, care, or
treatment of kidney diseases.
Sec. 6. The board is authorized to comply with such requirements
as may be necessary to obtain federal funds in the maximum amount and
most advantageous proportions possible in order to carry out the pur-
poses and objectives of this Act.
Sec. 7. The board is authorized to receive and use gifts and dona-
tions for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 8. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to receive all
moneys appropriated by congress and allotted to Texas for carrying
out the purposes of this Act or agreements, arrangements, or plans au-
thorized thereby; and to make disbursements therefrom upon the cer-
tification of the board. All public moneys available to the board shall
be deposited, administered, and disbursed in the same manner and un-
der the same conditions and requirements as provided by law for other
public funds in the state treasury. The state auditor shall regularly
audit all accounts established by the board in local depositories to as-
sure that non-public funds made available to the board through gift
or bequest, by local organizations desiring to participate in projects
for persons suffering from kidney diseases or by endowment or other-
wise, are expended in a manner consistent with the purposes of this
Act, and the board shall comply with such reporting procedures as the
state auditor may prescribe for the board's acceptance, holding, invest-
ment and use of non-public funds.
Sec. 9. (a) Any person certified by the board as eligible for treat-
ment under the provisions of this Act for whose treatment the board
has paid or the person or persons liable for the debts of such patient
108Ch. 57
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second, Third and Fourth Called Sessions of the Sixty-Second Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Third Legislature, legislative document, 1973; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221792/m1/720/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.