Bill Text: TX HB5155 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation of the maternal opioid misuse model of care for certain Medicaid recipients.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB5155 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB5155-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 5155 | ||
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| relating to the continuation of the maternal opioid misuse model of | ||
| care for certain Medicaid recipients. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 547, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 547.0007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 547.0007. MATERNAL OPIOID MISUSE MODEL OF CARE. (a) | ||
| In this section, "maternal opioid misuse model of care" means the | ||
| model of care implemented using federal money applied for and | ||
| received under former Section 531.0738 for the purpose of improving | ||
| the quality and accessibility of care for: | ||
| (1) pregnant women with opioid use disorder enrolled | ||
| in Medicaid during the prenatal and postpartum periods; and | ||
| (2) their children after birth. | ||
| (b) To the extent money is available to the commission for | ||
| that purpose, the commission shall continue implementing the | ||
| maternal opioid misuse model of care. | ||
| (c) Money in the opioid abatement account established under | ||
| Section 403.505 may be appropriated to the commission for the | ||
| purpose of carrying out this section. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2029. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 3. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
| required to implement Section 547.0007, Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, only if the legislature appropriates money | ||
| specifically for that purpose. If the legislature does not | ||
| appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the commission | ||
| may, but is not required to, implement that section using other | ||
| money available to the commission for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 5155 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 5155 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
