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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Eleanor Klibanoff

Texas House moves to expand Medicaid coverage to new moms for a year after childbirth

Patients wait to be seen at the People's Community Clinic in Austin, which provides state-subsidized women's health services to low-income women, July 15, 2014.
Patients wait to be seen at the People’s Community Clinic in Austin, which provides state-subsidized women’s health services to low-income women, on July 15, 2014. (Credit: Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune)

The Texas House passed a bill Friday that would allow low-income moms to stay on Medicaid for a full year after childbirth. The bill was approved with bipartisan support in a 132-8 vote. All of the votes against the bill were from Republicans; four Republicans who voted no on preliminary passage Thursday switched their votes to support the legislation Friday.

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