1-1 By: Naishtat, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 820 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999; 1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 Services; May 13, 1999, rereferred to Committee on Human Services; 1-5 May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-6 Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to review of certain children's continued eligibility for 1-10 medical assistance. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 32.0251 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 32.0251. ELIGIBILITY REVIEW FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN. (a) 1-15 The department shall establish and implement procedures under which 1-16 the department automatically reviews a child's eligibility for 1-17 medical assistance if: 1-18 (1) the child originally establishes eligibility for 1-19 medical assistance on the basis of receipt of financial assistance 1-20 under Chapter 31, as provided by Section 32.025(a); and 1-21 (2) that receipt of financial assistance under Chapter 1-22 31 ceases. 1-23 (b) The department shall ensure that the child continues to 1-24 receive medical assistance without a gap in eligibility if the 1-25 review required by this section indicates that the child is 1-26 eligible for medical assistance on another basis. 1-27 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-33 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-34 * * * * *