1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain benefits provided under the Texas Public School

 1-3     Employees Group Insurance Program.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  The Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance

 1-6     Act (Article 3.50-4, Insurance Code) is amended by adding Section

 1-7     18D to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 18D.  PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN TEST.  A health benefit

 1-9     plan offered under the program must provide coverage for each male

1-10     who is at least 50 years of age, or is at least 40 years of age

1-11     with a family history of prostate cancer or another cancer risk

1-12     factor, and who is enrolled in the plan for a medically accepted

1-13     prostate specific antigen test used for the detection of prostate

1-14     cancer.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-16     applies only to coverage under a health benefit plan that is

1-17     delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1,

1-18     1998.  Coverage under a health benefit plan that is delivered,

1-19     issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 1998, is governed

1-20     by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of

1-21     this Act, and that law is continued in effect for this purpose.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 239 was passed by the House on April

         10, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 239 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor