Bill Text: TX HB2933 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to ensuring certain adoptive parents may consent to medical care and access information regarding their child who is eligible for benefits under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-05 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2933-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to ensuring certain adoptive parents may consent to medical care and access information regarding their child who is eligible for benefits under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-05 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2933-Introduced.html
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By: Dorazio | H.B. No. 2933 |
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relating to ensuring certain adoptive parents may consent to | ||
medical care and access information regarding their child who is | ||
eligible for benefits under Medicaid. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.02472 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.02472. PARENTAL CONSENT AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION | ||
CONCERNING CERTAIN ADOPTED CHILDREN. The commission shall | ||
collaborate with the Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
to ensure that, if applicable, both adoptive parents of a child | ||
adopted from the conservatorship of the department and eligible for | ||
Medicaid are able to: | ||
(1) consent to the medical care provided to the child | ||
under Medicaid; and | ||
(2) provide and receive information regarding the | ||
child's Medicaid benefits, including: | ||
(A) providing and receiving information through | ||
any electronic interface or system used by the commission to | ||
communicate to or about Medicaid recipients; and | ||
(B) providing information to and receiving | ||
information from: | ||
(i) the commission; | ||
(ii) the Medicaid managed care organization | ||
arranging for or providing the managed care plan in which the child | ||
is enrolled; and | ||
(iii) any health care provider providing | ||
services to the child under Medicaid. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |