By Naishtat H.B. No. 820 76R3991 KKA-D 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, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.