1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1586
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
1-4 Development; May 13, 1999, rereferred to Committee on Human
1-5 Services; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-6 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the coverage by long-term care insurance policies of
1-10 the parents of an insured or the parents of the spouse of an
1-11 insured.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 3(b), Article 3.70-12, Insurance Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (b) The standards established under Subsection (a) of this
1-16 section shall cover the following:
1-17 (1) terms of renewability;
1-18 (2) initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility;
1-19 (3) nonduplication of coverage;
1-20 (4) coverage of dependents;
1-21 (5) coverage of parents of the insured and parents of
1-22 the spouse of the insured;
1-23 (6) [(5)] preexisting conditions;
1-24 (7) [(6)] termination of insurance;
1-25 (8) [(7)] continuation or conversion;
1-26 (9) [(8)] probationary periods;
1-27 (10) [(9)] benefit limitations, exceptions, and
1-28 reductions;
1-29 (11) [(10)] elimination periods;
1-30 (12) [(11)] requirements for replacement;
1-31 (13) [(12)] recurrent conditions;
1-32 (14) [(13)] definitions of terms; and
1-33 (15) [(14)] inflation protection.
1-34 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-35 (b) The commissioner of insurance shall establish the
1-36 standards required under Section 3, Article 3.70-12, Insurance
1-37 Code, as amended by this Act, not later than March 1, 2000.
1-38 (c) Section 3(b), Article 3.70-12, Insurance Code, as
1-39 amended by this Act, applies only to a policy that is delivered,
1-40 issued for delivery, or renewed on or after April 1, 2000. A
1-41 policy that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before
1-42 April 1, 2000, is governed by the law as it existed immediately
1-43 before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
1-44 effect for that purpose.
1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-50 * * * * *