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.