86R5721 LED-D
By: Walle H.B. No. 4301
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Medicaid coverage of doula services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (nn) to read as follows:
(nn) The commission shall provide medical assistance
reimbursement for services provided by a doula, including
childbirth education and emotional and physical support provided
during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. The
executive commissioner by rule shall determine the doula services
to be covered and any doula certification requirements.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
adopt the rules necessary to implement Section 32.024(nn), Human
Resources Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. If before implementing any provision of this Act
a state agency determines that an additional waiver or additional
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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.