Bill Text: TX HB4757 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of Medicaid benefits to certain former foster care youth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Referred to Human Services [HB4757 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4757-Introduced.html
86R12186 MM-D | ||
By: Lopez | H.B. No. 4757 |
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relating to the provision of Medicaid benefits to certain former | ||
foster care youth. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.02473 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.02473. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN FORMER FOSTER | ||
CARE YOUTH. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 32.0247 and 32.02471, | ||
the commission shall provide medical assistance to a former foster | ||
care youth regardless of the youth's income, assets, or resources | ||
if the youth: | ||
(1) is younger than 26 years of age; and | ||
(2) was in foster care, including in the | ||
conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services, and receiving medical assistance at the time the youth, | ||
because of the youth's age, transitioned out of foster care, | ||
including a youth who was in foster care in another state or | ||
territory. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall apply for and actively pursue a waiver | ||
under Section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. | ||
Section 1315) to the state Medicaid plan from the federal Centers | ||
for Medicare and Medicaid Services or any other federal agency to | ||
implement Section 32.02473, Human Resources Code, as added by this | ||
Act. The commission may delay implementing Section 32.02473, Human | ||
Resources Code, as added by this Act, until the waiver applied for | ||
under this section is granted. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |