Texas House Eying A Thursday Vote On Medicaid Expansion insurancenewsnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insurancenewsnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As the Texas House takes up the roughly $250 billion state budget on Thursday, Democrats will propose an amendment to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act and they could have the votes for it to pass.
State leaders are facing heightened pressure to expand coverage through the joint state-federal program to more low-income Texans after the federal government this month rescinded approval for a waiver that delivers billions of dollars to a safety net program for uninsured Texans.
A bipartisan group of legislators urged their colleagues to consider bills that would expand Medicaid in a joint statement on Monday, the same day that 188 organizations and local governments from across the state submitted a letter to state leaders calling for the same.
State representative files bill to modernize legislative procedure kagstv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kagstv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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BRAZOS COUNTY, TX â By seniority appointment, John Raney has joined the Appropriations and the Higher Education Committees, once more.
Joining 26 other members, the Appropriations Committee has jurisdiction over the following:
All bills and resolutions appropriating money from the state treasury
All bills and resolutions containing provisions resulting in the automatic allocation of funds from the state treasury
All bills and resolutions diverting funds from the state treasury or preventing funds from going in that otherwise would be placed in the state treasury
All matters pertaining to claims and accounts filed with the legislature against the state unless jurisdiction over those bills and resolutions is specifically granted by these rules to some other standing committee.