Bill Text: TX HB136 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for lactation consultation services.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-5)
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB136-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 136 | ||
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| relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for lactation | ||
| consultation services. | ||
| 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 32.02482 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.02482. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE REIMBURSEMENT FOR | ||
| LACTATION CONSULTATION SERVICES. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Lactation consultant" means an individual | ||
| certified by an international or national certification program | ||
| approved by the commission to provide lactation consultation | ||
| services. | ||
| (2) "Recipient" means a medical assistance program | ||
| recipient. | ||
| (b) The commission shall ensure medical assistance | ||
| reimbursement is provided to a lactation consultant for providing | ||
| lactation consultation services to a recipient. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner shall establish a separate | ||
| provider type for lactation consultants for purposes of enrollment | ||
| as a provider for and reimbursement under the medical assistance | ||
| program. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 136 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 16, 3 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 136 was passed by the Senate on May 8, | ||
| 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
