Bill Text: TX SB809 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the Texas women's health program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB809 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB809-Introduced.html
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By: Miles | S.B. No. 809 |
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relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the Texas | ||
women's health program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0997 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0997. AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT OF CERTAIN WOMEN IN | ||
TEXAS WOMEN'S HEALTH PROGRAM. (a) In this section, "Texas women's | ||
health program" means a program operated by the commission that is | ||
substantially similar to the demonstration project operated under | ||
former Section 32.0248, Human Resources Code, and that is intended | ||
to expand access to preventive health and family planning services | ||
for women in this state. | ||
(b) Subject to the eligibility requirements of the Texas | ||
women's health program, the commission shall identify and | ||
automatically enroll in the program a woman who is a Medicaid | ||
recipient or enrollee in the child health plan program but who will | ||
lose eligibility for benefits under the applicable program because | ||
of the woman's age. The commission shall implement the automatic | ||
enrollment in a manner that: | ||
(1) ensures a seamless transition in the provision of | ||
services between Medicaid or the child health plan program, as | ||
applicable, and the Texas women's health program; and | ||
(2) allows a woman to begin receiving services through | ||
the Texas women's health program on the first day the woman is no | ||
longer eligible for Medicaid or the child health plan program, as | ||
applicable. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |