85R2783 JG-F
By: Lozano H.B. No. 2607
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 through
the child health plan program to allow the commission to
simultaneously renew the eligibility of multiple children within
the same household who are eligible for enrollment in the program.
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary
to determine the scope of, and eligibility for participating in,
the demonstration project.
(c) The commission shall operate the demonstration project
under this section in conjunction with the demonstration project
under Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, if feasible.
(d) Not later than December 1, 2020, 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, 2021.
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 through the medical assistance program to allow the
commission to simultaneously recertify the eligibility of multiple
children within the same household who are eligible for medical
assistance under this chapter.
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary
to determine the scope of, and eligibility for participating in,
the demonstration project.
(c) The commission shall operate the demonstration project
under this section in conjunction with the demonstration project
under Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, if feasible.
(d) Not later than December 1, 2020, 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, 2021.
SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2018, 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, 2017.