Bill Text: TX HB2607 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to demonstration projects to coordinate eligibility renewal and eligibility recertification for certain children in the Medicaid and child health plan programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Referred to Human Services [HB2607 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2607-Introduced.html
85R2783 JG-F | ||
By: Lozano | H.B. No. 2607 |
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relating to demonstration projects to coordinate eligibility | ||
renewal and eligibility recertification for certain children in the | ||
Medicaid and child health plan programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 62, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 62.1025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 62.1025. ELIGIBILITY RENEWAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. | ||
(a) The commission shall establish a demonstration project through | ||
the child health plan program to allow the commission to | ||
simultaneously renew the eligibility of multiple children within | ||
the same household who are eligible for enrollment in the program. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to determine the scope of, and eligibility for participating in, | ||
the demonstration project. | ||
(c) The commission shall operate the demonstration project | ||
under this section in conjunction with the demonstration project | ||
under Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, if feasible. | ||
(d) Not later than December 1, 2020, the commission shall | ||
submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's | ||
progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project | ||
and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration | ||
project. | ||
(e) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.02614 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.02614. ELIGIBILITY RECERTIFICATION DEMONSTRATION | ||
PROJECT. (a) The commission shall establish a demonstration | ||
project through the medical assistance program to allow the | ||
commission to simultaneously recertify the eligibility of multiple | ||
children within the same household who are eligible for medical | ||
assistance under this chapter. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to determine the scope of, and eligibility for participating in, | ||
the demonstration project. | ||
(c) The commission shall operate the demonstration project | ||
under this section in conjunction with the demonstration project | ||
under Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, if feasible. | ||
(d) Not later than December 1, 2020, the commission shall | ||
submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's | ||
progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project | ||
and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration | ||
project. | ||
(e) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2018, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall implement the eligibility renewal | ||
and eligibility recertification demonstration projects required by | ||
Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, and | ||
Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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 5. 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. |