Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 298D.101. Hearing

(a) In each year that the board authorizes a program under this chapter, the board shall hold a public hearing on the amounts of any mandatory payments that the board intends to require during the year and how the revenue derived from those payments is to be spent.

(b) Not later than the fifth day before the date of the hearing required under Subsection (a), the board shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the district and provide written notice of the hearing to the chief operating officer of each institutional health care provider in the district.

(c) The board's determination of the amount of mandatory payments to be collected during the year must be shown to be based on reasonable estimates of the amount of revenue necessary to fund intergovernmental transfers from the district to the state providing the nonfederal share of payments described by Section 298D.103(b)(1) that is otherwise unfunded.