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House Bill 1488 |
House Author: Rose et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
Senate Sponsor: Miles et al. |
House Bill 1488 amends the Government Code and Health and Safety Code to set out provisions regarding sickle cell disease treatment and education and to revise provisions governing the sickle cell task force. Among other provisions, the bill requires the Health and Human Services Commission, in collaboration with the task force, to address sickle cell disease education for Medicaid providers, support initiatives to assist Medicaid managed care plans in promoting timely and evidence‑informed health care services to enrollees with sickle cell disease, explore methods for improving sickle cell disease education and awareness within the public school system, and provide recommendations to the Texas Education Agency. The bill also requires a medical school or graduate medical education program in Texas that offers certain residency programs to examine and incorporate in the curriculum sickle cell disease and trait education. With respect to the sickle cell task force, the bill expands the task force's membership, provides for the inclusion of recommendations for improving sickle cell disease education for health care providers in its annual report, and sets the date on which the task force is set to be abolished.