By: Schwertner	S.B. No. 1414
	(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2017; March 16, 2017, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
	March 30, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; March 30, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a recipient's disenrollment from a Medicaid managed
	care plan.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 533.0076(c), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c)  The commission shall allow a recipient who is enrolled
	in a managed care plan under this chapter to disenroll from that
	plan and enroll in another managed care plan[:
	[(1)]  at any time for cause in accordance with federal
	law[; and
	[(2)     once for any reason after the periods described
	by Subsections (a) and (b)].
	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, 2017.
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