By: Burnam H.B. No. 58
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to monies for women's health care services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.024(c), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The department shall establish standards governing the
amount, duration, and scope of services provided under the medical
assistance program. The standards may not be lower than the minimum
standards required by federal law and rule as a condition for
obtaining federal matching funds for support of the program, and
may not be lower than the standards in effect on August 27, 1967.
Standards or payments for the vendor drug program may not be lower
than those in effect on January 1, 1973.
(c-1) The department shall ensure that money spent for
purposes of the demonstration project for women's health care
services under former Section 32.0248, Human Resources Code, or a
similar successor program is not used to perform or promote
elective abortions, or to contract with entities that perform or
promote elective abortions or affiliate with entities that perform
or promote elective abortions.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.