Bill Text: TX SB809 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the Texas women's health program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB809 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB809-Introduced.html

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85R9164 KKR-D
By: Miles S.B. No. 809

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.