HB 2471: Students at public schools; expansion of Medicaid services, certain platforms, surveys, and analyses

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Expansion of Medicaid services for students at public schools; certain platforms, surveys, and analyses; report. Requires the Department of Education to enter into one or more statewide contracts with providers of a platform for Medicaid billing for reimbursable services rendered at school sites that any school board may utilize at no cost to facilitate, track, and coordinate such billing. The bill requires the Department of Education to survey each local school division to determine which school divisions bill Medicaid for reimbursable services rendered at school sites, the types of services that are billed, and the amounts for which such services are billed and to report its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the School Health Services Committee no later than August 1, 2025. The bill also requires the School Health Services Committee to collaborate with local school divisions and such other stakeholders as it deems necessary to identify barriers to Medicaid billing for reimbursable services rendered at school sites in each local school division, with a particular focus on local school divisions in which such Medicaid billing is unutilized or underutilized.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. February 17, 2025Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
2. February 13, 2025Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
3. February 7, 2025Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
4. February 3, 2025Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2471)
5. January 29, 2025Referred to Committee on Education and Health
6. January 29, 2025Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
7. January 28, 2025Read third time and passed House (77-Y 22-N)
8. January 27, 2025Read second time and engrossed
9. January 27, 2025Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
10. January 24, 2025Read first time
11. January 22, 2025Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
12. January 21, 2025Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)

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