PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3016

PRINTER'S NO. 3039

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

2120

Session of

2019

INTRODUCED BY HENNESSEY, DECEMBER 12, 2019

AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 16, 2019

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 443.12 of the act of June 13, 1967

(P.L.31, No.21), known as the Human Services Code, amended or

added June 22, 2018 (P.L.258, No.40), and June 28, 2019

(P.L.168, No.19), is amended to read:

Section 443.12. Nonemergency Medical Transportation

Services.--[(a) The department shall amend the Commonwealth's

State Plan under Title XIX of the Social Security Act (49 Stat.

620, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.) to provide nonemergency medical

Commonwealth's approved Title XIX State Plan, the department

shall develop a proposal.

[(c) The department shall issue the solicitation for a

Statewide or regional full-risk brokerage model within one

hundred eighty days after the effective date of this subsection.

(d) The department may not enter into a contract with a

broker under subsection (b) prior to the completion of the

analysis required under subsection (e).]

(e) [Prior to the implementation of the full-risk brokerage

model, the] (E) The department, in coordination with the

methods of delivery and limitations or restrictions imposed on

the methods of delivery.

(2) An analysis of the effectiveness and efficiency of the

current nonemergency transportation service delivery as it

relates to all human service programs in this Commonwealth.

(3) A review of other states' models of delivering

nonemergency medical and other human services transportation,

including the number of other states that utilize a full-risk

brokerage model and the effect a brokerage model has had on

public transit in those states.

(5) An analysis of the impact on consumers, including an

increase or decrease in quality and service availability.

(f) The analysis under subsection (e) shall be completed no

later than one hundred eighty days from the effective date of

this subsection. A preliminary report of the analysis under

subsection (e) shall be completed no later than ninety days from

the effective date of this subsection. The analysis under

subsection (e) and the preliminary report under this subsection

shall be delivered to the following:

(1) The Secretary of Human Services.

(6) The chairperson and minority chairperson of the Health

and Human Services Committee of the Senate.

(7) The chairperson and minority chairperson of the Health

Committee of the House of Representatives.

(g) A full-risk brokerage model may not be implemented until

legislation is enacted to do all of the following:

(1) Authorize a change in the implementation of nonemergency

medical transportation services.

(2) Transfer the function of implementing nonemergency

medical transportation services from the department to the

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.