Texas Again Declines Medicaid Expansion, Eligibility-Simplification Bills Also Died (89th Lege)
SB 232 (Medicaid expansion) got no committee hearing and a budget-day expansion amendment was defeated; enrollment-simplification efforts (HB 321 SNAP-to-Medicaid, 'express lane' eligibility) also failed. The one win: HB 3940 requires annual reminders that newborns of Medicaid-enrolled parents are auto-eligible.
For Texas FQHCs, uninsured patients remain the largest payer slice, and high eligibility friction keeps enrollment-navigation staff mission-critical.
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