The bill tells the state health commission to let people in the CLASS Medicaid waiver program receive personal assistance services at any hour of the day or night. It touches people with disabilities enrolled in CLASS, their attendants and the providers who schedule them. On the ground, attendant help is no longer limited to certain hours, as far as federal law allows, starting September 1, 2025, or later if a federal waiver is needed.
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Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R HB 4566 (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.DO-OVER. Reworked text of a bill filed before that died: 88R HB 4566 (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Jan 2, 2025 and referred to the House Human Services committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
relating to the provision of personal assistance services under the
community living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver
program.
WHAT IT DOES
Day or night, for people in the waiver program.
The bill tells the state health commission to let people in the CLASS Medicaid waiver program receive personal assistance services at any hour of the day or night. It touches people with disabilities enrolled in CLASS, their attendants and the providers who schedule them. On the ground, attendant help is no longer limited to certain hours, as far as federal law allows, starting September 1, 2025, or later if a federal waiver is needed.
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
House committee · Human Services · Final status: Died in committee
Subjects
Human Services--General
MEDICAID
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Text
The text as introduced · 184 words
89R3807 AND-D
By: Gervin-Hawkins
H.B. No. 1719
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of personal assistance services under the
community living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver
program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 546, Government Code, as effective
April 1, 2025, is amended by adding Subchapter J-1 to read as
follows:
SUBCHAPTER J-1. COMMUNITY LIVING ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES
(CLASS) WAIVER PROGRAM
Sec. 546.0471. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES. To the extent
allowed by federal law, the commission shall allow personal
assistance services to be provided to a recipient under the
community living assistance and support services (CLASS) Medicaid
waiver program at any time during a 24-hour period.
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, 2025.