Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 505 amends the Education Code to allow the governing board of a medical or dental school to require its students to have health insurance coverage while they are enrolled at the school. The board must determine minimum coverage standards for the health insurance it requires of students and must provide a student who agrees in writing with a reasonable estimate of the cost of the coverage within the student's education costs for financial aid purposes. The bill allows a student to be provisionally enrolled at a medical or dental school for one academic session without the coverage to give the student time to obtain the coverage.