Bill Text: TX HB2774 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of behavioral health services for certain persons under the medical assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB2774 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2774-Introduced.html
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| By: Lozano | H.B. No. 2774 | |
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| relating to the provision of behavioral health services for certain | ||
| persons under the medical assistance program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (ll) to read as follows: | ||
| (ll) In this subsection, "serious mental illness" has the | ||
| meaning assigned by Section 1355.001, Insurance Code. The | ||
| commission in its rules and standards governing the scope of | ||
| services provided under the medical assistance program shall | ||
| include behavioral health services for a person who: | ||
| (1) is at least 20 years of age but younger than 65 | ||
| years of age; | ||
| (2) has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) has been arrested at least once. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
