Bill Text: TX HB1782 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for Medicaid for breast and cervical cancer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - Filed [HB1782 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1782-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 1782 | |
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| relating to eligibility for Medicaid for breast and cervical | ||
| cancer. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 32.024(y), Human Resources Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (y) The commission shall provide medical assistance to a | ||
| person in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer who is | ||
| eligible for that assistance under the Breast and Cervical Cancer | ||
| Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 (Pub. L. No. 106-354) and who | ||
| has a family income that is at or below 250 percent of the federal | ||
| poverty level. The commission shall provide the assistance for a | ||
| continuous period during which the person requires that | ||
| treatment. The executive commissioner shall simplify the provider | ||
| enrollment process for a provider of that medical assistance and | ||
| shall adopt rules to provide for certification of presumptive | ||
| eligibility of a person for that assistance. In determining a | ||
| person's eligibility for medical assistance under this subsection, | ||
| the executive commissioner, to the extent allowed by federal law, | ||
| may not require a personal interview. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 32.024(y), Human Resources Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies only to an initial determination or | ||
| recertification of eligibility of a person for medical assistance | ||
| for breast or cervical cancer under Section 32.024(y), Human | ||
| Resources Code, made on or after the date the section is | ||
| implemented, regardless of the date the person applied for that | ||
| assistance. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
