Bill Text: TX HB3962 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund to provide certain therapy services under the Medicaid program to children with disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - Referred to Appropriations [HB3962 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3962-Introduced.html
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By: Uresti | H.B. No. 3962 |
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relating to an appropriation of money from the economic | ||
stabilization fund to provide certain therapy services under the | ||
Medicaid program to children with disabilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. In addition to other amounts appropriated for | ||
the purpose, the amount of $150 million is appropriated from the | ||
economic stabilization fund to the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission for the purpose of providing speech, physical, and | ||
occupational therapy services under the Medicaid program to | ||
children with disabilities during the state fiscal biennium | ||
beginning September 1, 2017. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, but only | ||
if it receives a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each | ||
house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article | ||
III, Texas Constitution. |