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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 1565

Medicaid; seek federal waiver to provide for presumptive eligibility for persons who need mental health or substance use disorder services.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID TO ENTER INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN A WAIVER OF APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE MEDICAID LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO PROVIDE MEDICAID BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN NEED OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES OR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES DURING A PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY PERIOD; TO PROVIDE THAT DURING THE PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY PERIOD, THE MEDICAID BENEFITS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WILL BE LIMITED TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES OR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES, AS APPLICABLE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WILL INCLUDE, AT A MINIMUM, PROVISIONS FOR THE PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY PERIOD, QUALIFIED ENTITIES, NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS, AND A REQUIREMENT TO APPLY FOR MEDICAID BENEFITS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 20 to February 4, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

MedicaidJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 20 – Feb 4

  1. Referred to the House committee on Medicaid
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published