By:  Holzheauser                                H.B. No. 2146
       73R5093 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to extending transitional Medicaid benefits and child care
    1-3  services to former recipients of AFDC benefits.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Human Resources Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 31.0035 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 31.0035.  CHILD CARE SERVICES.  (a)  The department
    1-8  shall provide necessary child care services, in accordance with
    1-9  department rules and federal law, to a person who was receiving
   1-10  financial assistance under this chapter but is no longer eligible
   1-11  to receive the assistance because the person's household income
   1-12  exceeds the department's 100 percent needs standard in an amount
   1-13  that totally disqualifies the person for the assistance.
   1-14        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the department may
   1-15  provide the child care services only until the first anniversary of
   1-16  the date on which the person's household income exceeds the
   1-17  department's 100 percent needs standard in an amount that totally
   1-18  disqualifies the person for financial assistance.
   1-19        (c)  If the person is employed, the department may continue
   1-20  to provide child care services after the date prescribed by
   1-21  Subsection (b), but only until the earlier of:
   1-22              (1)  the third anniversary of the date on which the
   1-23  person's household income exceeds the department's 100 percent
   1-24  needs standard in an amount that totally disqualifies the person
    2-1  for financial assistance;
    2-2              (2)  the date the person receives child care services
    2-3  as a part of the person's employment benefits; or
    2-4              (3)  the date the person is no longer employed.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
    2-6  is amended by adding Section 32.0255 to read as follows:
    2-7        Sec. 32.0255.  TRANSITIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.  (a)  The
    2-8  department shall provide medical assistance, in accordance with
    2-9  department rules and federal law, to a person who was receiving
   2-10  financial assistance under Chapter 31 but is no longer eligible to
   2-11  receive the financial assistance because the person's household
   2-12  income exceeds the department's 100 percent needs standard in an
   2-13  amount that totally disqualifies the person for financial
   2-14  assistance.
   2-15        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the department may
   2-16  provide the medical assistance only until the first anniversary of
   2-17  the date on which the person's household income exceeds the
   2-18  department's 100 percent needs standard in an amount that totally
   2-19  disqualifies the person for financial assistance.
   2-20        (c)  If the person is employed, the department may continue
   2-21  to provide medical assistance after the date prescribed by
   2-22  Subsection (b), but only until the earlier of:
   2-23              (1)  the third anniversary of the date on which the
   2-24  person's household income exceeds the department's 100 percent
   2-25  needs standard in an amount that totally disqualifies the person
   2-26  for financial assistance;
   2-27              (2)  the date the person receives health insurance
    3-1  benefits for the person and the person's dependents as a part of
    3-2  the person's employment benefits; or
    3-3              (3)  the date the person is no longer employed.
    3-4        SECTION 3.  If before implementing Sections 31.0035 and
    3-5  32.0255, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act, the Texas
    3-6  Department of Human Services determines that a waiver or
    3-7  authorization from a federal agency is necessary for
    3-8  implementation, the department shall request the waiver or
    3-9  authorization and may delay implementing those provisions until the
   3-10  waiver or authorization is granted.
   3-11        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   3-12        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.