1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 446 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997; 1-3 April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the establishment of trusts for certain recipients of 1-9 medical assistance. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 101, Human Resources Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 101.031 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 101.031. TRUSTS FOR CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF MEDICAL 1-14 ASSISTANCE. (a) An area agency on aging may contract with one or 1-15 more private attorneys to establish trusts described by 42 U.S.C. 1-16 Section 1396p(d)(4)(B) for the benefit of recipients of medical 1-17 assistance under Chapter 32 who, without the establishment of these 1-18 trusts, would become ineligible for medical assistance. 1-19 (b) The department shall allocate available state funds to 1-20 the area agencies on aging for use in contracting for the 1-21 establishment of trusts under Subsection (a). 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-28 * * * * *