Several budgetary elements involving health care and services for Texans have also been approved.
Among them were a supplement $ 100 million To finance child care scholarships, low -income families on a waiting list for daycare.
Almost 95,000 The children of Texas are on a waiting list for childcare scholarships at a time when the facilities close and the cost of childcare services in Texas makes it difficult for parents who work to reach both ends.
Last year, HHSC asked $ 300 million in upgrades For its Medicaid registration system and food coupons, but will do it? Receive less than half of this request, around $ 139 million. The agency’s request came after Texas and the Nation suspended the Medicaid rules forcing participants to renew their requests more often during the pandemic then deleted nearly 2 million participants according to the pandemic. Improvements will shorten the delay between health care coverage applications and food assistance and activation of these advantages.
In Texas, Medicaid is mainly a health insurance program for children. Only low -income children, the elderly and new mothers are covered by Medicaid in this state.
There is also an increase of $ 18 million over the next two years for the State Intervention Services (ECI) of the State which help families to children up to 36 months which have delays in development, disabilities or certain medical diagnoses which can have an impact on development.
A rider of $ 60 million was put to cover the costs of Texas to enter a federal Summer lunch program in 2027. The 2023 program would give eligible $ 120 parents during the summer months to help pay the lunches when the school is not in session. More than 30 states are now participating in the program to transfer summer electronic advantages which is also called Sun Bucks.
LT. Gov. Dan Patrick defended the adoption of Bill 5 of the Senate, which creates the Texas Dementia Prevention and Research InstituteTo study dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other brain conditions. Modeled after Texas Cancer InstituteThe measure received bipartite support. Abbott has signed the bill, but the measure will now be in front of the voters to approve whether $ 3 billion in general income can be used to finance the project.
The Texas Office Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Survey on Health Care and Profits Fraud. This year, a handful of invoices were pass to help Rationalize surveys by the office and update Salary classifications For OIG officers to those of other agents of application of the Texas law, improving recruitment. This occurs when the office has played a decisive role in identifying fraud in some of the state health benefits systems, leading to dismissals of certain agency employees.