Bill Text: TX HB511 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a Medicaid buy-in program for Medicaid recipients with increased household income from employment with a small business.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Human Services [HB511 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB511-Introduced.html
| By: Beckley | H.B. No. 511 | |
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| relating to a Medicaid buy-in program for Medicaid recipients with | ||
| increased household income from employment with a small business. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.024442 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.024442. MEDICAID BUY-IN PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN | ||
| PERSONS WITH INCREASED HOUSEHOLD INCOME FROM EMPLOYMENT. (a) In | ||
| this section, "small business" means a business with an annual | ||
| gross revenue of $850,000 or less. | ||
| (b) The commission shall operate a Medicaid buy-in program | ||
| for Medicaid recipients: | ||
| (1) who are not eligible for a Medicaid buy-in program | ||
| established under Section 531.02444; and | ||
| (2) whose eligibility for Medicaid is otherwise being | ||
| terminated solely because of an increase in household income | ||
| received from employment with a small business. | ||
| (c) The program under this section must be substantively | ||
| identical to the Medicaid buy-in programs for persons with | ||
| disabilities established under Section 531.02444, except to the | ||
| extent that programmatic differences are appropriate because of the | ||
| populations served by the programs. | ||
| (d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules for | ||
| participation in the program under this section that provide for: | ||
| (1) eligibility requirements, including household | ||
| income limits for participation; and | ||
| (2) requirements for program participants to pay | ||
| premiums or cost-sharing payments. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2022, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| adopt the rules required by Section 531.024442, Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, and the commission shall implement the program | ||
| required by that section. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
