85R14553 KLA-D By: Uresti H.B. No. 3962 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to an appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund to provide certain therapy services under the Medicaid program to children with disabilities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. In addition to other amounts appropriated for the purpose, the amount of $150 million is appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to the Health and Human Services Commission for the purpose of providing speech, physical, and occupational therapy services under the Medicaid program to children with disabilities during the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2017. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, but only if it receives a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution.