By: Klick (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 3295

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the delivery of certain Medicaid services to persons with an intellectual or developmental disability.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 534.111, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 534.111. CONCLUSION OF PILOT PROGRAMS; EXPIRATION. On September 1, 2019 [2018]:

(1) each pilot program established under this subchapter that is still in operation must conclude; and

(2) this subchapter expires.

SECTION 2. Section 534.201(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) On September 1, 2020 [2018], the commission shall transition the provision of Medicaid benefits to individuals to whom this section applies to the STAR + PLUS Medicaid managed care program delivery model or the most appropriate integrated capitated managed care program delivery model, as determined by the commission based on cost-effectiveness and the experience of the STAR + PLUS Medicaid managed care program in providing basic attendant and habilitation services and of the pilot programs established under Subchapter C, subject to Subsection (c)(1).

SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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