Bill Text: TX HB3825 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to expanding access to women's health care services and family planning services by removing restrictions on the participation of certain health care providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB3825 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3825-Introduced.html
By: Ramos | H.B. No. 3825 |
|
||
|
||
relating to expanding access to women's health care services and | ||
family planning services by removing restrictions on the | ||
participation of certain health care providers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act shall be known as the Free | ||
Choice of Provider Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0025. [ |
||
SERVICE PROVIDERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, money | ||
appropriated to the commission [ |
||
shall [ |
||
(1) to eligible public and nonpublic entities that | ||
provide family planning services according to [ |
||
order of descending priority: | ||
(A) the demonstrated, evidence-based, historical | ||
ability of each entity to achieve the patient and service | ||
utilization goals of the family planning services, or[ |
||
(B) the likelihood of the entity to meet patient | ||
and service utilization goals based on standards set by the agency. | ||
[ |
||
[ |
||
(b) The legislature shall not direct the commission to award | ||
money appropriated for the purpose of providing family planning | ||
services otherwise in the General Appropriations Act. | ||
(c |
||
commission [ |
||
compliance with federal law, ensure distribution of funds for | ||
family planning services in a manner that provides equitable access | ||
to services in |
||
SECTION 3. The following laws are repealed: | ||
(1) Chapter 2272, Government Code, as added by Chapter | ||
501 (S.B. 22), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019; | ||
(2) Section 32.024(c-1), Human Resources Code. | ||
SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |