By Hudson                                             H.B. No. 1865
       74R5978 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to coverage provided under the Texas Employees Uniform
    1-3  Group Insurance Benefits Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Texas Employees Uniform Group Insurance
    1-6  Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code) is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 5B to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 5B.  CERTAIN COVERAGE PROHIBITED.  Notwithstanding any
    1-9  other provision of this Act, the programs of group coverages
   1-10  offered under this Act may not include any plan under which the
   1-11  covered person is required to select and use a primary care
   1-12  physician or to consult with a particular physician before
   1-13  consulting a medical specialist.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-15  applies only to an insurance policy that is delivered, issued for
   1-16  delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 1996. A policy that is
   1-17  delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 1996,
   1-18  is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
   1-19  effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
   1-20  that purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.