Bill Text: TX HB3424 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a strategic plan for expanding access to long-acting reversible contraception.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-31 - Referred to Public Health [HB3424 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3424-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 3424 | |
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| relating to the creation of a strategic plan for expanding access to | ||
| long-acting reversible contraception. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Department" means the Department of State Health | ||
| Services. | ||
| (2) "Long-acting reversible contraception" means a | ||
| method of birth control that provides effective contraception for | ||
| an extended period without requiring user action. The term | ||
| includes an injection, intrauterine device, and subdermal | ||
| contraceptive implant. | ||
| (3) "Plan" means the long-acting reversible | ||
| contraception strategic plan established under this section. | ||
| (b) The department shall develop the long-acting reversible | ||
| contraception strategic plan to significantly reduce barriers to | ||
| patient access to long-acting reversible contraception. The plan | ||
| must include specific methods for accomplishing this goal. | ||
| (c) In developing the plan, the department shall | ||
| collaborate with the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and | ||
| Babies and may convene any necessary workgroup. The members of a | ||
| workgroup convened under this section may include: | ||
| (1) obstetricians; | ||
| (2) hospital personnel; | ||
| (3) recipients of long-acting reversible | ||
| contraceptives; | ||
| (4) public advocates concerned with issues related to | ||
| long-acting reversible contraceptives; | ||
| (5) representatives of community-based and | ||
| faith-based organizations involved in providing education, | ||
| awareness, or support relating to long-acting reversible | ||
| contraceptives; and | ||
| (6) any other person the department determines has the | ||
| necessary knowledge or experience. | ||
| (d) In developing the plan, the department shall: | ||
| (1) identify barriers for Medicaid recipients and | ||
| those without health benefit plan coverage to access to a | ||
| long-acting reversible contraceptive, including specific barriers | ||
| related to: | ||
| (A) health care provider billing and | ||
| reimbursement procedures; and | ||
| (B) training of health care providers regarding | ||
| the provision of a long-acting reversible contraceptive; | ||
| (2) review potential costs, challenges, and benefits | ||
| of presumptive eligibility strategies and identify methods for | ||
| covering, defraying, or minimizing those costs; | ||
| (3) develop methods for creating partnerships with | ||
| public and private entities to increase public and provider | ||
| education and awareness concerning long-acting reversible | ||
| contraceptives; and | ||
| (4) make written recommendations to the legislature on | ||
| policy changes and funding needed to implement the plan. | ||
| (e) Not later than December 31, 2018, the department shall | ||
| deliver to the governor and members of the legislature the plan | ||
| developed under this section and recommendations on quality | ||
| improvement and goal implementation related to the plan. | ||
| (f) This Act expires June 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2017. | ||
