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
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1534 |
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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. |