Bill Text: TX SB136 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of promotoras and community health workers in Medicaid managed care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB136-Introduced.html
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| By: Johnson | S.B. No. 136 | |
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| relating to the use of promotoras and community health workers in | ||
| Medicaid managed care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 533.021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 533.021. PROMOTORAS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "promotora" and "community health worker" have the | ||
| meaning assigned by Section 48.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The commission shall allow each Medicaid managed care | ||
| organization providing health care services under the STAR Medicaid | ||
| managed care program to categorize services provided by a promotora | ||
| or community health worker as a quality improvement cost, as | ||
| authorized by federal law, instead of as an administrative expense. | ||
| 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 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, 2021. | ||
