Bill Text: TX HB88 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to provider discrimination against a Medicaid recipient or child health plan program enrollee based on immunization status.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-07 - Filed [HB88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB88-Introduced.html
87S20275 JG-F | ||
By: Swanson | H.B. No. 88 |
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relating to provider discrimination against a Medicaid recipient or | ||
child health plan program enrollee based on immunization status. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.02119 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.02119. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON IMMUNIZATION | ||
STATUS PROHIBITED. (a) A provider who participates in Medicaid or | ||
the child health plan program, including a provider participating | ||
in the provider network of a managed care organization that | ||
contracts with the commission to provide services under Medicaid or | ||
the child health plan program, may not refuse to provide health care | ||
services to a Medicaid recipient or child health plan program | ||
enrollee based on the recipient's or enrollee's refusal or failure | ||
to obtain a vaccine or immunization for a particular infectious or | ||
communicable disease. | ||
(b) The commission may not provide reimbursement and shall | ||
disenroll from participation as a provider under Medicaid or the | ||
child health plan program a provider who violates this section. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner may adopt rules as necessary | ||
to implement this section. | ||
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 on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |