Bill Text: TX HB1158 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the content of an application for Medicaid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Calendars Committee [HB1158 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1158-Comm_Sub.html

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85R18620 KKR-D
By: Davis of Harris H.B. No. 1158
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1158:
By: Price C.S.H.B. No. 1158

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the content of an application for Medicaid.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.025, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) The application form adopted under this section must
include:
(1) for an applicant who is pregnant, a question
regarding whether the pregnancy is the woman's first gestational
pregnancy; and
(2) a question regarding the applicant's preferences
for being contacted, as follows:
"If you are determined eligible for benefits, your
managed care organization or health plan provider may contact you
by telephone, text message, or e-mail about health care matters,
including reminders for appointments and information about
immunizations or well check visits. All preferred methods of
contact listed on this application will be shared with your managed
care organization or health plan provider. Please indicate below
your preferred methods of contact in order of preference, with the
number 1 being the most preferable method:
(1) By telephone (if contacted by cellular telephone,
the call may be autodialed or prerecorded, and your carrier's usage
rates may apply)? Yes No
Telephone number: _____________
Order of preference: 1 2 3 (circle a number)
(2) By text message (a free autodialed service, but
your carrier may charge message and data rates)? Yes No
Cellular telephone number: ______________
Order of preference: 1 2 3 (circle a number)
(3) By e-mail? Yes No
E-mail address: __________________
Order of preference: 1 2 3 (circle a number)".
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2018, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
adopt a revised application form for medical assistance benefits
that conforms to the requirements of Section 32.025(g), Human
Resources Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. If before implementing any provision of this Act
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
waiver or authorization is granted.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.