Bill Text: TX HB12 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the duration of services provided under Medicaid to women following a pregnancy.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-24)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB12-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 12 | ||
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| relating to the duration of services provided under Medicaid to | ||
| women following a pregnancy. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE PURPOSE. Out of the state's | ||
| profound respect for the lives of mothers and unborn children, | ||
| Medicaid coverage is extended for mothers whose pregnancies end in | ||
| the delivery of the child or end in the natural loss of the child. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 32.024(l-1), Human Resources Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (l-1) The commission shall continue to provide medical | ||
| assistance to a woman who is eligible for medical assistance for | ||
| pregnant women for a period of not less than: | ||
| (1) six months following the date the woman delivers | ||
| or experiences an involuntary miscarriage; and | ||
| (2) 12 months that begins on the last day of the | ||
| woman's pregnancy and ends on the last day of the month in which the | ||
| 12-month period ends in accordance with Section 1902(e)(16), Social | ||
| Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396a(e)(16)). | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall, in accordance with Section 1902(e)(16), | ||
| Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396a(e)(16)), seek from the | ||
| appropriate federal agency an amendment to the state's Medicaid | ||
| state plan to implement Section 32.024(l-1)(2), Human Resources | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. The commission may delay implementing | ||
| this Act until the state plan amendment is approved. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 12 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 8, 0 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 12 on May 23, 2023, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 12 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, | ||
| Nays 9, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 12 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 12 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
