By:  Danburg                                           H.B. No. 164
       73R1307 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to mandatory health insurance coverage for certain medical
    1-3  examinations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 3.51-6, Insurance Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 3F to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 3F.  COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.  (a)  In
    1-8  this section, "health insurance policy" means a group policy or
    1-9  contract, including a group contract issued by a company subject to
   1-10  Chapter 20, Insurance Code, that provides coverage for hospital,
   1-11  surgical, or medical expenses incurred as a result of accident or
   1-12  sickness.
   1-13        (b)  A health insurance policy that provides coverage for
   1-14  primary care medical examinations and related diagnostic procedures
   1-15  must provide coverage for a Pap smear performed as part of a
   1-16  gynecological examination.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 2, Chapter 397, Acts of the 54th
   1-18  Legislature, Regular Session, 1955 (Article 3.70-2, Vernon's Texas
   1-19  Insurance Code), is amended by adding Subsection (N) to read as
   1-20  follows:
   1-21        (N)  An individual or group policy of accident and sickness
   1-22  insurance that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in
   1-23  this state, including a policy issued by a company subject to
   1-24  Chapter 20, Insurance Code, and evidence of coverage issued by a
    2-1  health maintenance organization subject to the Texas Health
    2-2  Maintenance Organization Act (Chapter 20A, Vernon's Texas Insurance
    2-3  Code), that provides coverage for primary care medical examinations
    2-4  and related diagnostic procedures must provide coverage for a Pap
    2-5  smear performed as part of a gynecological examination.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  This  Act  takes  effect  September 1, 1993,  and
    2-7  applies only to a policy or evidence of coverage delivered, issued
    2-8  for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 1994.  A policy or
    2-9  evidence of coverage delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed
   2-10  before January 1, 1994, is governed by the law as it existed
   2-11  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
   2-12  continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-13        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.