Bill Text: TX HB767 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the evaluation of and reporting on certain Medicaid waiver projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Left pending in committee [HB767 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB767-Introduced.html
86R349 KFF-D | ||
By: Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 767 |
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relating to the evaluation of and reporting on certain Medicaid | ||
waiver projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.021111 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.021111. SECTION 1115 WAIVER PROJECTS: FINAL | ||
EVALUATION REPORTS; REPORT TO LEGISLATURE. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Section 1115 waiver program" means a federally | ||
funded program of the state under Medicaid that is authorized under | ||
Section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section | ||
1315). | ||
(2) "Waiver project" means any experimental, pilot, or | ||
demonstration project implemented by an entity other than a state | ||
agency and funded, wholly or partly, using federal money received | ||
under a Section 1115 waiver program. | ||
(b) The commission shall require each entity that receives | ||
funding to implement a waiver project in this state to, not later | ||
than the 30th day after the date the period authorized for the | ||
project terminates and regardless of whether the project is | ||
continuing for another period, submit a final evaluation report to | ||
the commission. A final evaluation report must: | ||
(1) be based on: | ||
(A) quantitative research methods involving the | ||
empirical investigation of the impact of key programmatic features | ||
of the waiver project; or | ||
(B) if quantitative designs are technically | ||
infeasible or not well suited to the change sought by the waiver | ||
project, an alternative design approved by the commission; | ||
(2) minimize the burden on recipients and project | ||
recipient privacy while ensuring the impact of the waiver project | ||
is measured; | ||
(3) discuss the hypothesis being tested by the waiver | ||
project; | ||
(4) discuss the data used to conduct the evaluation, | ||
including monitoring and reporting conducted during the waiver | ||
project and the methods used for collecting the data; | ||
(5) include a description of how the effects of the | ||
waiver project are isolated from other factors that may contribute | ||
to the change sought; and | ||
(6) include any other information the commission | ||
determines appropriate. | ||
(c) The commission shall, as soon as practicable, but not | ||
later than the 30th day after the date the commission receives a | ||
final evaluation report under this section: | ||
(1) submit a copy of the report along with the | ||
commission's recommendations regarding the continuation of the | ||
waiver project to the standing committees of the senate and house of | ||
representatives with jurisdiction over Medicaid; and | ||
(2) make a copy of the report available to the public | ||
on the commission's Internet website. | ||
(d) The commission's recommendations under Subsection | ||
(c)(1) must: | ||
(1) include a statement regarding whether the waiver | ||
project should be modified in any manner, made permanent, | ||
eliminated, or extended to allow more time for review; and | ||
(2) provide justification for the recommendations, | ||
including a detailed cost-benefit analysis of the waiver project. | ||
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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |