Bill Text: TX HB1008 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the State of Texas entering into the Interstate Medicaid Reform Compact.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-17 - Left pending in committee [HB1008 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1008-Introduced.html
By: Lewis | H.B. No. 1008 |
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relating to the State of Texas entering into the Interstate | ||
Medicaid Reform Compact. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle I, Title 4, Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Chapter 536 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 536. MEDICAID REFORM--EXECUTION OF INTERSTATE COMPACT. | ||
This state enters into the "Interstate Medicaid Reform Compact" | ||
with all other states legally joining in the compact in | ||
substantially the following form: | ||
INTERSTATE MEDICAID REFORM COMPACT | ||
ARTICLE I - STATE MEDICAID GRANTS | ||
It shall be the responsibility of each participating state to | ||
formulate plans for replacing the federal medicaid program with a | ||
new federal program of direct grants to states, to go into effect | ||
within one year of entrance into this compact by such state. By | ||
consenting to this compact, the State of Texas hereby agrees to | ||
participate in a "State Medicaid Grants" program that shall make | ||
each participating state entitled to receive, from the United | ||
States Department of Health and Human Services, for each of the | ||
federal fiscal years 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, a state medicaid | ||
grant equal to the greatest of the amount to be paid to that state | ||
under the previous federal medicaid program during the federal | ||
fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. The conditions currently | ||
attaching under federal law to the states' use of medicaid funds | ||
shall be suspended as to the state medicaid grants. | ||
ARTICLE II - INTERSTATE COOPERATION | ||
It shall be the responsibility of each participating state to set | ||
enrollment and benefits levels that provide substantial, | ||
affordable, and accessible health care for the poor and uninsured. | ||
Each participating state hereby agrees that it will substantially | ||
use its state medicaid grants to support such state health care | ||
programs. | ||
ARTICLE III - IMPLEMENTATION | ||
(A) This compact shall become operative immediately upon its | ||
entrance by any two states; thereafter, this compact shall become | ||
effective as to any other state upon the compact's entrance by such | ||
state. | ||
(B) This compact shall become effective, for purposes of the | ||
operation of federal law in the participating states and of any | ||
other legal effect requiring consent of the United States Congress, | ||
pursuant to Article I, Section 10, of the United States | ||
Constitution, upon the approval of a resolution expressing the | ||
consent of the United States Congress to this compact. | ||
(C) This compact may be amended by agreement among the | ||
participating states and enactment of such amendment under the laws | ||
of each participating state. By consenting to this compact, the | ||
United States Congress consents to any amendments adopted in | ||
accordance with this article. | ||
ARTICLE IV - WITHDRAWAL AND DISSOLUTION | ||
A participating state may withdraw from this compact by repealing | ||
its enactment of this compact. This compact shall be dissolved upon | ||
the withdrawal of all but one of the signatories hereto. | ||
SECTION 2. It is the request of the Texas Legislature that | ||
the United States Congress consent to this proposed compact, | ||
pursuant to Article I, Section 10, of the United States | ||
Constitution. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately upon its | ||
passage. | ||
SECTION 4. The Texas Secretary of State shall send official | ||
copies of this Act to the Vice-President of the United States (in | ||
his capacity as presiding officer of the United States Senate), to | ||
both United States Senators from the State of Texas, to the Speaker | ||
of the United States House of Representatives, and to all 32 members | ||
of the United States House of Representatives from the State of | ||
Texas, with the request that this Act be published in its entirety | ||
in the Congressional Record. |