By Coleman H.B. No. 2424
76R8948 DLF-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to application of certain coverage requirements for
1-3 serious mental illness.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(b), Article 3.51-14, Insurance Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) This article does not apply to coverage under:
1-8 (1) a blanket accident and health insurance policy as
1-9 that term is defined under Section 2, Article 3.51-6 of this code;
1-10 (2) a short-term travel policy;
1-11 (3) an accident-only policy;
1-12 (4) a limited or specified-disease policy; [or]
1-13 (5) a plan offered under the Texas Employees Uniform
1-14 Group Insurance Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas
1-15 Insurance Code) or the Texas State College and University Employees
1-16 Uniform Insurance Benefits Act (Article 3.50-3, Vernon's Texas
1-17 Insurance Code) or in accordance with Article 3.51-5A of this code;
1-18 or
1-19 (6) a medicare supplement policy, as that term is
1-20 defined under Section 1(b)(3) [1(3)], Article 3.74 of this code.
1-21 SECTION 2. 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,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.