By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 2748
         76R7274 PB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to coverage for certain care for children provided through
 1-3     a health maintenance organization.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  The Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act
 1-6     (Chapter 20A, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code) is amended by adding
 1-7     Section 9E to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 9E.  WELL-CHILD CARE FROM BIRTH.  (a)  In this Act,
 1-9     "well-child care from birth" has the meaning used under Section
1-10     1302,  Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 300e-1), and
1-11     its subsequent amendments, and includes newborn screening required
1-12     by the Texas Department of Health at birth through the 14th day of
1-13     life.
1-14           (b)  Each health maintenance organization shall ensure that
1-15     each health care plan provided by the organization includes
1-16     well-child care from birth that complies with the federal
1-17     requirements adopted under Chapter XI, Public Health Service Act
1-18     (42 U.S.C.  Section 300e et seq.), and its subsequent amendments,
1-19     and the rules adopted by the Texas Department of Health to
1-20     implement those requirements.
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.