Bill Text: TX HB3337 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a survey for women enrolled in the Healthy Texas Women program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3337 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3337-Comm_Sub.html
86R25844 LED-D | |||
By: J. Johnson of Dallas | H.B. No. 3337 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3337: | |||
By: Thompson of Harris | C.S.H.B. No. 3337 |
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relating to a survey for women enrolled in the Healthy Texas Women | ||
program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.09951 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.09951. HEALTHY TEXAS WOMEN PROGRAM SURVEY. (a) In | ||
this section, "Healthy Texas Women program" means a program | ||
operated by the commission that is substantially similar to the | ||
demonstration project operated under former Section 32.0248, Human | ||
Resources Code, and that is intended to expand access to preventive | ||
health and family planning services for women in this state. | ||
(b) The commission shall develop a survey for women enrolled | ||
in the Healthy Texas Women program to solicit information for | ||
improving the operation of the program. The commission shall seek | ||
comments from interested persons in developing the survey. The | ||
survey may solicit information regarding: | ||
(1) whether a woman's health care provider under the | ||
program is the same provider who treated the woman before she was | ||
enrolled in the program, and if not, the method by which the woman | ||
found her provider; | ||
(2) the length of time between the date the woman's | ||
Medicaid or child health plan program coverage ended and the date of | ||
her first visit to a health care provider participating in the | ||
program; | ||
(3) notable barriers to the woman's health care | ||
access; and | ||
(4) any other information the commission considers | ||
necessary or useful in determining program improvements. | ||
(c) The commission shall include in each provider cost | ||
reimbursement contract in the Healthy Texas Women program | ||
provisions that require the provider to: | ||
(1) distribute the survey to a woman on the woman's | ||
first visit to the provider after her enrollment in the program; and | ||
(2) return the completed survey to the commission. | ||
(d) The commission may not take any enforcement action | ||
against a provider who is unable to comply with the contract | ||
provisions described by Subsection (c). | ||
(e) The commission shall compile the information obtained | ||
under this section and use the information to improve the operation | ||
of the Healthy Texas Women program. Not later than December 1 of | ||
each even-numbered year, the commission shall prepare and submit a | ||
written report that includes the compiled information about the | ||
program and the commission's recommendations for improving the | ||
operation of the program to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
the speaker of the house of representatives, and the presiding | ||
officers of the standing committees of the senate and house of | ||
representatives having primary jurisdiction over health and human | ||
services issues. | ||
(f) Any personally identifying information in a patient's | ||
medical records acquired by the commission under this section is | ||
confidential and is not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552. | ||
(g) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to ensure | ||
that the use of any health information under this section complies | ||
with all state and federal laws relating to the privacy, | ||
protection, confidentiality, and transmission of health | ||
information, including the Health Insurance Portability and | ||
Accountability Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No. 104-191) and rules adopted | ||
under that Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2020, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
develop the survey and adopt rules required by Section 531.09951, | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 531.09951, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a contract entered into or renewed on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A contract entered into or | ||
renewed before that date is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the contract was entered into or renewed, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |