Bill Text: TX SB1534 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to demonstration projects to coordinate eligibility renewal and eligibility recertification for certain children in the Medicaid and child health plan programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1534 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1534-Introduced.html
  86R10689 JG-D
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1534
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to demonstration projects to coordinate eligibility
  renewal and eligibility recertification for certain children in the
  Medicaid and child health plan programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 62, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 62.1025 to read as follows:
         Sec. 62.1025.  ELIGIBILITY RENEWAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
  (a) The commission shall establish a demonstration project in one
  or more geographic areas of this state through the child health plan
  program to allow the commission to simultaneously renew the
  eligibility and review the household income of each child residing
  in the same household who is eligible for enrollment in the program.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to
  determine the scope of, and eligibility for participation in, the
  demonstration project. The rules adopted by the executive
  commissioner under this subsection shall ensure that the household
  income of each child participating in the demonstration project is
  reviewed:
               (1)  not more than twice during the 12-month period
  during which a child remains eligible to receive child health plan
  program benefits, including at the time eligibility under the
  program is renewed; and
               (2)  at the same time as each other child residing in
  the same household who is eligible for enrollment in the program.
         (c)  If feasible, the commission shall operate the
  demonstration project established under this section in
  conjunction with the demonstration project established under
  Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code.
         (d)  Not later than December 1, 2022, the commission shall
  submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's
  progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project
  and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration
  project.
         (e)  This section expires September 1, 2023.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 32.02614 to read as follows:
         Sec. 32.02614.  ELIGIBILITY RECERTIFICATION DEMONSTRATION
  PROJECT. (a) The commission shall establish a demonstration
  project in one or more geographic areas of this state through the
  medical assistance program to allow the commission to
  simultaneously recertify the eligibility and verify the household
  income of each child residing in the same household who is eligible
  for medical assistance under this chapter.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to
  determine the scope of, and eligibility for participation in, the
  demonstration project. The rules adopted by the executive
  commissioner under this subsection shall ensure that the household
  income of each child participating in the demonstration project is
  verified:
               (1)  not more than twice during the 12-month period
  during which a child remains eligible to receive medical assistance
  program benefits, including at the time eligibility under the
  program is recertified; and
               (2)  at the same time as each other child residing in
  the same household who is eligible for medical assistance program
  benefits.
         (c)  If feasible, the commission shall operate the
  demonstration project established under this section in
  conjunction with the demonstration project established under
  Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code.
         (d)  Not later than December 1, 2022, the commission shall
  submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's
  progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project
  and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration
  project.
         (e)  This section expires September 1, 2023.
         SECTION 3.  Not later than September 1, 2020, the Health and
  Human Services Commission shall implement the eligibility renewal
  and eligibility recertification demonstration projects required by
  Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, and
  Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 4.  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 5.  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, 2019.
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