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Relating to the more options for maternal support program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
Sponsored by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 17, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 29, 2024
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 1, 2024
- Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 19, 202431–16
- Done: House committeeMarch 14, 2024
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 3, 202461–34
- Done: To the GovernorApril 10, 2024
- Done: Signed into lawApril 10, 2024
Signed into law What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services can now choose to run the MOMS program itself using contracts or hire an outside administrator to manage it. This change also updates how the program uses service providers and moves the deadline for when the department must send an annual report to the legislature.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the more options for maternal support (MOMS) program.41C, the MOMS program is required to be administered by the department of health and human services (HHS) through an administrator selected by a request for proposals (RFP) process. The bill amends this provision to authorize HHS to either administer the program directly through contracts with providers of pregnancy support services (providers), or through a program administrator selected through an RFP process. The bill also eliminates the reference to subcontractors and instead refers to providers and makes requirements for the former subcontractors applicable to these providers. The bill eliminates the requirement that HHS publish the program administrator and subcontractor criteria on the HHS internet site. The bill changes the date by which HHS is required to begin submitting an annual report regarding the program to the general assembly from October 1, 2023, to October 1, 2024.41C to reflect the optional use of a program administrator and the elimination of program subcontractors. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2022, the original effective date of the Code section.
Why it matters. The Department of Health and Human Services could choose to manage the maternal support (MOMS) program directly through contracts with service providers instead of hiring an outside administrator. This change would also apply new requirements to these providers and move the deadline for submitting an annual report to the general assembly to October 1, 2024.2
Senate subcommittee
Named January 29, 2024 (as SSB 3114). On January 31, 2024 it recommended passage. [].
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
20 written public comments to its subcommittee: January 31, 2024 (2), January 23, 2024 (18) · on the Legislature’s site
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