1-1 By: Haley, Nelson S.B. No. 458
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1993; February 25, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 May 11, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 11, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Parker x
1-10 Lucio x
1-11 Ellis x
1-12 Haley x
1-13 Harris of Dallas x
1-14 Harris of Tarrant x
1-15 Leedom x
1-16 Madla x
1-17 Rosson x
1-18 Shapiro x
1-19 Wentworth x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 458 By: Haley
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to health insurance benefits for the treatment of certain
1-24 bones and joints of the human body.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Article 21.53A, Insurance Code, is amended by
1-27 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-28 (f) A health insurance policy or employee benefit plan
1-29 providing benefits for routine dental services that is delivered,
1-30 issued for delivery, renewed, amended, or otherwise contracted for
1-31 in this state must offer coverage of nonsurgical treatment of the
1-32 temporomandibular (jaw or craniomandibular) joints.
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-34 applies only to a health insurance policy as defined by
1-35 Article 21.53A, Insurance Code, as amended by this Act, a health
1-36 care plan arranged for or provided by a health maintenance
1-37 organization, or an employee benefit plan delivered, issued for
1-38 delivery, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 1994. A
1-39 policy or plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before
1-40 January 1, 1994, is governed by the law as it existed immediately
1-41 before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
1-42 effect for that purpose.
1-43 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-49 Austin,
1-50 Texas
1-51 May 11, 1993
1-52 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-53 President of the Senate
1-54 Sir:
1-55 We, your Committee on Economic Development to which was referred
1-56 S.B. No. 458, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-57 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-58 that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
1-59 lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
1-60 Parker,
1-61 Chairman
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1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 FOR AGAINST ON
1-65 ___________________________________________________________________
1-66 Name: Mazie M. Jamison x
1-67 Representing: Kaiser Permanente
1-68 City: Dallas
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2-2 Name: Sally Hanners x
2-3 Representing: Texas Dental Association
2-4 City: Austin
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2-6 Name: Jon Comola x
2-7 Representing: Blue Cross
2-8 City: Austin
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2-10 Name: Rhonda Myron x
2-11 Representing: Tex. Dept. of Insurance
2-12 City: Austin
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2-14 Name: Mark J. Hanna x
2-15 Representing: Texas Dental Association
2-16 City: Austin
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