| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the Texas |
|
|
women's health program. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Section 531.0997 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 531.0997. AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT OF CERTAIN WOMEN IN |
|
|
TEXAS WOMEN'S HEALTH PROGRAM. (a) In this section, "Texas women's |
|
|
health program" means a program operated by the commission that is |
|
|
substantially similar to the demonstration project operated under |
|
|
former Section 32.0248, Human Resources Code, and that is intended |
|
|
to expand access to preventive health and family planning services |
|
|
for women in this state. |
|
|
(b) Subject to the eligibility requirements of the Texas |
|
|
women's health program, the commission shall identify and |
|
|
automatically enroll in the program a woman who is a Medicaid |
|
|
recipient or enrollee in the child health plan program but who will |
|
|
lose eligibility for benefits under the applicable program because |
|
|
of the woman's age. The commission shall implement the automatic |
|
|
enrollment in a manner that: |
|
|
(1) ensures a seamless transition in the provision of |
|
|
services between Medicaid or the child health plan program, as |
|
|
applicable, and the Texas women's health program; and |
|
|
(2) allows a woman to begin receiving services through |
|
|
the Texas women's health program on the first day the woman is no |
|
|
longer eligible for Medicaid or the child health plan program, as |
|
|
applicable. |
|
|
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary |
|
|
to implement this section. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. |