Bill Text: TX HB3962 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain working parents for whom federal matching money is available.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Health Care Reform, Select [HB3962 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3962-Introduced.html
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By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 3962 |
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relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain | ||
working parents for whom federal matching money is available. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the Medicaid for Texas | ||
Working Families Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.02473 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.02473. EXPANDED ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAL | ||
ASSISTANCE. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission | ||
shall provide medical assistance to all persons: | ||
(1) who are the working parent of a dependent child; | ||
(2) who apply for the assistance; and | ||
(3) for whom federal matching money is available. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 32.02473, Human Resources Code, as added | ||
by this Act, applies only to an initial determination or | ||
recertification of eligibility of a person for medical assistance | ||
under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, made on or after the date | ||
the section is implemented, regardless of the date the person | ||
applied for that assistance. | ||
SECTION 4. As soon as possible after the effective date of | ||
this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall take all necessary actions to expand | ||
eligibility for medical assistance under Chapter 32, Human | ||
Resources Code, in accordance with Section 32.02473, Human | ||
Resources Code, as added by this Act, including notifying | ||
appropriate federal agencies of that expanded eligibility. | ||
SECTION 5. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that any other 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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |