Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 1864 directs the Texas Department of Health to establish a temporary promotora program development committee to study issues related to the development of outreach and education programs for promotoras or community health workers and advise the department, the governor, and the legislature of its findings. The act authorizes the committee to establish a series of neighborhood-based peer health outreach and education pilot projects to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of employing promotoras to assist beneficiaries of the Medicaid managed care and Children's Health Insurance Program programs.

            House Bill 1864 requires the department to establish and operate a program designed to train and educate persons who act as promotoras by using as a resource the uniform curriculum for training and educating promotoras developed by the Health Education Training Centers Alliance of Texas. The department must also establish and operate a certification program for persons who act as promotoras.