Patients wait to be seen at the People's Community Clinic in Austin in 2010. Credit- Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune

Patients wait to be seen at the People's Community Clinic in Austin in 2010. Credit- Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune

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Texas Senate OKs extending postpartum Medicaid — with an anti-abortion amendment

New moms will be able to keep their health insurance for a full year under a proposal the Senate passed Sunday. A last-minute anti-abortion amendment means the bill will go back to the House

Texas is on the precipice of giving new moms a full year of health care coverage, after the Senate unanimously passed a bill to extend Medicaid coverage. The bill has already passed the House, but due to a last-minute anti-abortion amendment, it will now return to that chamber to reconcile the different versions.