Bill Text: TX HB1397 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of community recovery organization peer-to-peer services under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Human Services [HB1397 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1397-Introduced.html
| 88R3703 JG-D | ||
| By: Moody | H.B. No. 1397 | |
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| relating to the provision of community recovery organization | ||
| peer-to-peer services under Medicaid. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.09991 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.09991. COMMUNITY RECOVERY ORGANIZATIONS. (a) In | ||
| this section, "community recovery organization" means a nonprofit | ||
| organization that: | ||
| (1) mobilizes resources inside and outside of a local | ||
| community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term | ||
| recovery for individuals with a substance use or mental health | ||
| condition and their affected family members; | ||
| (2) is governed by members of the local community: | ||
| (A) at least 51 percent of whom identify as an | ||
| individual recovering from a substance use or mental health | ||
| condition; and | ||
| (B) the remainder of whom identify as an affected | ||
| family member of an individual recovering from a substance use or | ||
| mental health condition; and | ||
| (3) aligns with applicable national best practices | ||
| recognized by the commission. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to provide | ||
| Medicaid reimbursement for peer-to-peer services provided by | ||
| community recovery organizations, which must include: | ||
| (1) rules that establish training requirements for | ||
| community recovery organization peer-to-peer service providers; | ||
| (2) rules that establish certification and | ||
| supervision requirements for community recovery organizations; | ||
| (3) rules that define the scope of peer-to-peer | ||
| services that community recovery organizations may provide; | ||
| (4) rules that distinguish peer-to-peer services | ||
| provided by community recovery organizations from other services | ||
| that a person must hold a license to provide; and | ||
| (5) any other rules necessary to protect the health | ||
| and safety of individuals receiving services provided by community | ||
| recovery organizations. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner shall establish a work group | ||
| to provide input for the adoption of rules under Subsection (b) and | ||
| shall consider that input in adopting rules under that subsection. | ||
| The work group is composed of at least nine but not more than 13 | ||
| members with expertise in substance use disorder recovery or | ||
| community recovery organizations. The executive commissioner | ||
| shall ensure that at least half of the work group members are from | ||
| rural communities in this state. | ||
| (d) The executive commissioner shall appoint one work group | ||
| member to serve as presiding officer. | ||
| (e) The work group is automatically abolished on the | ||
| adoption of rules under Subsection (b). | ||
| (f) Subsections (c), (d), and (e) and this subsection expire | ||
| September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. Effective January 1, 2025, Section 32.024, Human | ||
| Resources Code, is amended by adding Subsection (pp) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (pp) The commission in the commission's rules and standards | ||
| governing the scope of services provided under the medical | ||
| assistance program shall include peer-to-peer services provided by | ||
| community recovery organizations as defined by Section 531.09991, | ||
| Government Code, to the extent permitted by federal law. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than December 31, 2023, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| establish the work group required by Section 531.09991, Government | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. Not later than December 31, 2024, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| adopt the rules required by Section 531.09991, Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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 6. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
