Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

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1	1	86R10689 JG-D
2	2	By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1534
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to demonstration projects to coordinate eligibility
8	8	renewal and eligibility recertification for certain children in the
9	9	Medicaid and child health plan programs.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 62, Health and Safety
12	12	Code, is amended by adding Section 62.1025 to read as follows:
13	13	Sec. 62.1025. ELIGIBILITY RENEWAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
14	14	(a) The commission shall establish a demonstration project in one
15	15	or more geographic areas of this state through the child health plan
16	16	program to allow the commission to simultaneously renew the
17	17	eligibility and review the household income of each child residing
18	18	in the same household who is eligible for enrollment in the program.
19	19	(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to
20	20	determine the scope of, and eligibility for participation in, the
21	21	demonstration project. The rules adopted by the executive
22	22	commissioner under this subsection shall ensure that the household
23	23	income of each child participating in the demonstration project is
24	24	reviewed:
25	25	(1) not more than twice during the 12-month period
26	26	during which a child remains eligible to receive child health plan
27	27	program benefits, including at the time eligibility under the
28	28	program is renewed; and
29	29	(2) at the same time as each other child residing in
30	30	the same household who is eligible for enrollment in the program.
31	31	(c) If feasible, the commission shall operate the
32	32	demonstration project established under this section in
33	33	conjunction with the demonstration project established under
34	34	Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code.
35	35	(d) Not later than December 1, 2022, the commission shall
36	36	submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's
37	37	progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project
38	38	and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration
39	39	project.
40	40	(e) This section expires September 1, 2023.
41	41	SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
42	42	is amended by adding Section 32.02614 to read as follows:
43	43	Sec. 32.02614. ELIGIBILITY RECERTIFICATION DEMONSTRATION
44	44	PROJECT. (a) The commission shall establish a demonstration
45	45	project in one or more geographic areas of this state through the
46	46	medical assistance program to allow the commission to
47	47	simultaneously recertify the eligibility and verify the household
48	48	income of each child residing in the same household who is eligible
49	49	for medical assistance under this chapter.
50	50	(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to
51	51	determine the scope of, and eligibility for participation in, the
52	52	demonstration project. The rules adopted by the executive
53	53	commissioner under this subsection shall ensure that the household
54	54	income of each child participating in the demonstration project is
55	55	verified:
56	56	(1) not more than twice during the 12-month period
57	57	during which a child remains eligible to receive medical assistance
58	58	program benefits, including at the time eligibility under the
59	59	program is recertified; and
60	60	(2) at the same time as each other child residing in
61	61	the same household who is eligible for medical assistance program
62	62	benefits.
63	63	(c) If feasible, the commission shall operate the
64	64	demonstration project established under this section in
65	65	conjunction with the demonstration project established under
66	66	Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code.
67	67	(d) Not later than December 1, 2022, the commission shall
68	68	submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's
69	69	progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project
70	70	and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration
71	71	project.
72	72	(e) This section expires September 1, 2023.
73	73	SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2020, the Health and
74	74	Human Services Commission shall implement the eligibility renewal
75	75	and eligibility recertification demonstration projects required by
76	76	Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, and
77	77	Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act.
78	78	SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act
79	79	a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
80	80	federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
81	81	the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
82	82	authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
83	83	waiver or authorization is granted.
84	84	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
85	85	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
86	86	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
87	87	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
88	88	Act takes effect September 1, 2019.