1-1 By: Puente (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos) H.B. No. 239 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 1997; 1-3 April 14, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to certain benefits provided under the Texas Public School 1-9 Employees Group Insurance Program. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. The Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance 1-12 Act (Article 3.50-4, Insurance Code) is amended by adding Section 1-13 18D to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 18D. PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN TEST. A health benefit 1-15 plan offered under the program must provide coverage for each male 1-16 who is at least 50 years of age, or is at least 40 years of age 1-17 with a family history of prostate cancer or another cancer risk 1-18 factor, and who is enrolled in the plan for a medically accepted 1-19 prostate specific antigen test used for the detection of prostate 1-20 cancer. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-22 applies only to coverage under a health benefit plan that is 1-23 delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 1-24 1998. Coverage under a health benefit plan that is delivered, 1-25 issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 1998, is governed 1-26 by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of 1-27 this Act, and that law is continued in effect for this purpose. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *