Bill Text: TX HB4543 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to implementation of the system redesign for the delivery of Medicaid benefits to persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB4543 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4543-Comm_Sub.html
86R13430 KFF-F | ||
By: Klick, Raymond | H.B. No. 4543 |
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relating to implementation of the system redesign for the delivery | ||
of Medicaid benefits to persons with intellectual or developmental | ||
disabilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 534.053(g), Government Code, as amended | ||
by Chapters 837 (S.B. 200), 946 (S.B. 277), and 1117 (H.B. 3523), | ||
Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is reenacted | ||
and amended to read as follows: | ||
(g) On January 1, 2029 [ |
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(1) the advisory committee is abolished; and | ||
(2) this section expires. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 534.054(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) This section expires January 1, 2029 [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 534.106(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission [ |
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pilot programs established under this subchapter not later than | ||
September 1, 2022 [ |
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SECTION 4. Section 534.111, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 534.111. CONCLUSION OF PILOT PROGRAMS; | ||
EXPIRATION. On September 1, 2024 [ |
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(1) each pilot program established under this | ||
subchapter that is still in operation must conclude; and | ||
(2) this subchapter expires. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 534.201(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) On September 1, 2025 [ |
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transition the provision of Medicaid benefits to individuals to | ||
whom this section applies to the STAR+PLUS [ |
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managed care program delivery model or the most appropriate | ||
integrated capitated managed care program delivery model, as | ||
determined by the commission based on cost-effectiveness and the | ||
experience of the STAR+PLUS [ |
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program in providing basic attendant and habilitation services and | ||
of the pilot programs established under Subchapter C, subject to | ||
Subsection (c)(1). | ||
SECTION 6. Section 534.202(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) After implementing the transition required by Section | ||
534.201, on September 1, 2027 [ |
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transition the provision of Medicaid benefits to individuals to | ||
whom this section applies to the STAR+PLUS [ |
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managed care program delivery model or the most appropriate | ||
integrated capitated managed care program delivery model, as | ||
determined by the commission based on cost-effectiveness and the | ||
experience of the transition of Texas home living (TxHmL) waiver | ||
program recipients to a managed care program delivery model under | ||
Section 534.201, subject to Subsections (c)(1) and (g). | ||
SECTION 7. 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 8. 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, 2019. |