Bill Text: TX HB4169 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to providing prevocational or similar services under certain Medicaid waiver programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective immediately [HB4169 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4169-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing prevocational or similar services under certain Medicaid waiver programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective immediately [HB4169 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4169-Introduced.html
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By: Price | H.B. No. 4169 |
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relating to providing prevocational services under certain | ||
Medicaid waiver programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.0755 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.0755. PREVOCATIONAL SERVICES UNDER CERTAIN WAIVER | ||
PROGRAMS. (a) In this section, "prevocational services" means | ||
services that are designed to prepare an individual for paid or | ||
unpaid work and achieve a generalized result rather than being | ||
job-task oriented. | ||
(b) Prevocational services provided under the community | ||
living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver program or | ||
another medical assistance waiver program providing long-term | ||
services or supports to a medical assistance recipient must be | ||
designed to assist the recipient in achieving permanent integrated | ||
employment receiving compensation at or above the minimum wage in | ||
the recipient's community and in accordance with state and federal | ||
law. | ||
(c) For purposes of determining a recipient's eligibility | ||
for individualized skills and socialization services under a | ||
medical assistance program providing long-term services or | ||
supports to recipients under the medical assistance program, | ||
habilitation services include prevocational services. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 3. 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, 2023. |