| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the |
|
|
Healthy Texas Women 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 531.09971 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 531.09971. AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT OF CERTAIN WOMEN IN |
|
|
HEALTHY TEXAS WOMEN PROGRAM. (a) In this section: |
|
|
(1) "CHIP perinatal program" means the perinatal |
|
|
program operated under the child health plan program established |
|
|
under Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code. |
|
|
(2) "Healthy Texas Women 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 Healthy |
|
|
Texas Women program, the commission shall identify and |
|
|
automatically enroll in the program a woman who is enrolled in the |
|
|
CHIP perinatal program but who will lose eligibility for benefits |
|
|
under that program when the woman is no longer pregnant. The |
|
|
commission shall implement the automatic enrollment in a manner |
|
|
that: |
|
|
(1) ensures a seamless transition in the provision of |
|
|
services between the CHIP perinatal program and the Healthy Texas |
|
|
Women program; and |
|
|
(2) allows a woman to begin receiving services through |
|
|
the Healthy Texas Women program on the first day the woman is no |
|
|
longer eligible for enrollment in the CHIP perinatal program. |
|
|
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary |
|
|
to implement this section. |
|
|
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |