By Puente H.B. No. 239 75R1460 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 and who is enrolled in the plan 1-11 for a medically accepted prostate specific antigen test used for 1-12 the detection of prostate cancer. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-14 applies only to coverage under a health benefit plan that is 1-15 delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 1-16 1998. Coverage under a health benefit plan that is delivered, 1-17 issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 1998, is governed 1-18 by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of 1-19 this Act, and that law is continued in effect for this purpose. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.