82R6420 SJM-D
By: Coleman H.B. No. 2299
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of the women's health program
demonstration project.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 32.0248(a), (g), (h), and (i), Human
Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall operate [establish] a [five-year]
demonstration project through the medical assistance program to
expand access to preventive health and family planning services for
women. A woman eligible under Subsection (b) to participate in the
demonstration project may receive appropriate preventive health
and family planning services, including:
(1) medical history recording and evaluation;
(2) physical examinations;
(3) health screenings, including screening for:
(A) diabetes;
(B) cervical cancer;
(C) breast cancer;
(D) sexually transmitted diseases;
(E) hypertension;
(F) cholesterol; and
(G) tuberculosis;
(4) counseling and education on contraceptive methods
emphasizing the health benefits of abstinence from sexual activity
to recipients who are not married, except for counseling and
education regarding emergency contraception;
(5) provision of contraceptives, except for the
provision of emergency contraception;
(6) risk assessment; and
(7) referral of medical problems to appropriate
providers [that are entities or organizations that do not perform
or promote elective abortions or contract or affiliate with
entities that perform or promote elective abortions].
(g) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year,
the department shall submit a report to the legislature regarding
the department's progress in [establishing and] operating the
demonstration project.
(h) The department shall ensure the money spent under the
demonstration project, regardless of the funding source, is not
used to perform or promote elective abortions. [The department, for
the purpose of the demonstration project, may not contract with
entities that perform or promote elective abortions or are
affiliates of entities that perform or promote elective abortions.]
(i) This section expires September 1, 2016 [2011].
SECTION 2. If before implementing Section 32.0248, Human
Resources Code, as amended by this Act, a state agency determines
that an amendment to the existing waiver or other authorization is
necessary to extend the operation of the demonstration project for
women's health care services under that section as amended, the
agency affected by the provision shall request the amendment to the
waiver or other authorization and may delay implementing that
section until the amendment or other authorization is granted.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect August 31, 2011.