a new payment form for Thriving Texas Families providers

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89R9351 KRM-D

By: Hull
H.B. No. 2581

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the information required for payment of services

provided through the Thriving Texas Families Program.

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

SECTION 1. Section 54.005, Health and Safety Code, as added

by Chapter 1033 (S.B. 24), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular

Session, 2023, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as

follows:

(c) A network contractor or service provider who requests

payment for services provided through the program shall submit the

request on a form the commission prescribes. The form must include:

(1) an anonymized assigned number corresponding with

an unduplicated client;

(2) the client's anonymized signature verifying the

client was provided information and instruction on accessing the

program's pregnancy-related resources and information web page on

the commission's Internet website during each client interaction,

including an in-person visit, continuous online interaction, and

audio communication;

(3) the date, time, type, and location of each client

interaction;

(4) the name of any employee who provided a service

through the program; and

(5) an itemized list of each service, material item,

or referral provided to an unduplicated client during each client

interaction.

SECTION 2. (a) Not later than November 1, 2025, the Health

and Human Services Commission shall develop and make publicly

available on the commission's Internet website the form required by

Section 54.005(c), Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 54.005(c), Health and Safety

Code, as added by this Act, a network contractor or service provider

is not required to submit a form required by that subsection until

December 1, 2025.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.