By Naishtat, Coleman, Thompson,                        H.B. No. 820
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to review of certain children's continued eligibility for
 1-3     medical assistance.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 32.0251 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 32.0251.  ELIGIBILITY REVIEW FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN.  (a)
 1-8     The department shall establish and implement procedures under which
 1-9     the department automatically reviews a child's eligibility for
1-10     medical assistance if:
1-11                 (1)  the child originally establishes eligibility  for
1-12     medical assistance on the basis of receipt of financial assistance
1-13     under Chapter 31, as provided by Section 32.025(a); and
1-14                 (2)  that receipt of financial assistance under Chapter
1-15     31 ceases.
1-16           (b)  The department shall ensure that the child continues  to
1-17     receive medical assistance without a gap in eligibility if the
1-18     review required by this section indicates that the child is
1-19     eligible for medical assistance on another basis.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.