Bill Text: TX HB2161 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for benefits under the Texas women's health program operated by the Department of State Health Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - Referred to Public Health [HB2161 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2161-Introduced.html
| 83R8738 ADM-D | ||
| By: M. Gonzalez of El Paso | H.B. No. 2161 | |
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| relating to eligibility for benefits under the Texas women's health | ||
| program operated by the Department of State Health Services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 49 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 49. TEXAS WOMEN'S HEALTH PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 49.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Department" means the Department of State Health | ||
| Services. | ||
| (2) "Executive commissioner" means the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
| (3) "Texas women's health program" means the program | ||
| operated by the department that is substantially similar to the | ||
| demonstration project operated under former Section 32.0248, Human | ||
| Resources Code, and that is intended to expand access to preventive | ||
| health and family planning services for women in this state. | ||
| Sec. 49.002. AGE OF ELIGIBILITY. Subject to other | ||
| eligibility criteria specified by rules adopted by the executive | ||
| commissioner, a woman is eligible for benefits under the Texas | ||
| women's health program if the woman is 15 years of age or older. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
