Bill Text: TX SJR8 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for the Medicaid program to certain persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-12 - Co-author authorized [SJR8 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SJR8-Introduced.html
| 83R577 EES-D | ||
| By: Ellis | S.J.R. No. 8 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand | ||
| eligibility for the Medicaid program to certain persons. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 74 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 74. The state shall provide medical assistance under | ||
| the federal Medicaid program to all persons who apply for that | ||
| assistance and for whom federal matching funds are available under | ||
| the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. | ||
| 111-148) as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation | ||
| Act of 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-152) to the state to provide that | ||
| assistance. | ||
| SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
| the Texas Constitution: | ||
| TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
| to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 83rd Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2013, requiring the state to expand eligibility | ||
| for the Medicaid program to all persons for whom federal matching | ||
| funds are available under the federal Patient Protection and | ||
| Affordable Care Act. | ||
| (b) Section 74, Article XVI, of this constitution takes | ||
| effect January 1, 2014. | ||
| (c) This temporary provision expires January 1, 2015. | ||
| SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the state to | ||
| expand eligibility for the Medicaid program to all persons for whom | ||
| federal matching funds are available under the federal Patient | ||
| Protection and Affordable Care Act." | ||
