85R2783 JG-F
 
  By: Sheffield H.B. No. 3151
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to demonstration projects to coordinate eligibility
  renewal and eligibility recertification for certain children in the
  Medicaid and child health plan programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 62, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 62.1025 to read as follows:
         Sec. 62.1025.  ELIGIBILITY RENEWAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
  (a)  The commission shall establish a demonstration project through
  the child health plan program to allow the commission to
  simultaneously renew the eligibility of multiple children within
  the same household who are eligible for enrollment in the program.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary
  to determine the scope of, and eligibility for participating in,
  the demonstration project.
         (c)  The commission shall operate the demonstration project
  under this section in conjunction with the demonstration project
  under Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, if feasible.
         (d)  Not later than December 1, 2020, the commission shall
  submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's
  progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project
  and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration
  project.
         (e)  This section expires September 1, 2021.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 32.02614 to read as follows:
         Sec. 32.02614.  ELIGIBILITY RECERTIFICATION DEMONSTRATION
  PROJECT. (a)  The commission shall establish a demonstration
  project through the medical assistance program to allow the
  commission to simultaneously recertify the eligibility of multiple
  children within the same household who are eligible for medical
  assistance under this chapter.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary
  to determine the scope of, and eligibility for participating in,
  the demonstration project.
         (c)  The commission shall operate the demonstration project
  under this section in conjunction with the demonstration project
  under Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, if feasible.
         (d)  Not later than December 1, 2020, the commission shall
  submit a report to the legislature regarding the commission's
  progress in establishing and operating the demonstration project
  and recommendations on continuing or expanding the demonstration
  project.
         (e)  This section expires September 1, 2021.
         SECTION 3.  Not later than September 1, 2018, the Health and
  Human Services Commission shall implement the eligibility renewal
  and eligibility recertification demonstration projects required by
  Section 62.1025, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, and
  Section 32.02614, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 4.  If before implementing any provision of this Act
  a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
  federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
  the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
  authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
  waiver or authorization is granted.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.