Bill Text: TX SB1466 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of prosthetic devices to certain Medicaid recipients.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-06 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1466 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1466-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo | S.B. No. 1466 | |
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| relating to the provision of prosthetic devices to certain Medicaid | ||
| recipients. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (ff-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (ff-1) The commission shall provide a prosthetic device | ||
| under the medical assistance program to a recipient who needs the | ||
| device because of a congenital absence, surgical revision, or | ||
| traumatic amputation of an extremity, hip, or shoulder, regardless | ||
| of the recipient's age. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
