By: Hinojosa, Blanco  S.B. No. 842
         (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 2023; March 1, 2023,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
  Services; May 8, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 8, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to health benefit coverage for bariatric surgery under the
  state employees group benefits program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1551.225(a), Insurance Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The board of trustees shall develop a cost-neutral or
  cost-positive plan for providing under the group benefits program
  bariatric surgery coverage for:
               (1)  employees eligible to participate in the program
  under Section 1551.101;
               (2)  annuitants eligible to participate in the program
  under Section 1551.102; and
               (3)  former state employees eligible to participate in
  the program under Section 1551.108.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a plan year that commences on or after January 1, 2024.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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