By Smithee H.B. No. 3036
76R8134 MCK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to immunizations of children.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 161.004(f), Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (f) The board shall adopt rules that are necessary to
1-7 administer this section. The board shall adopt an immunization
1-8 schedule that complies with the guidelines for immunization
1-9 schedules developed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization
1-10 Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American
1-11 Academy of Family Practice.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 3(a), Article 21.53F, Insurance Code, as
1-13 added by Chapter 683, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular
1-14 Session, 1997, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) A health benefit plan that provides benefits for a
1-16 family member of the insured shall provide coverage for each
1-17 covered child described by Subsection (b) of this section, from
1-18 birth through the date the child is six years of age, for:
1-19 (1) immunization against:
1-20 (A) diphtheria;
1-21 (B) haemophilus influenzae type b;
1-22 (C) hepatitis B;
1-23 (D) measles;
1-24 (E) mumps;
2-1 (F) pertussis;
2-2 (G) polio;
2-3 (H) rubella;
2-4 (I) tetanus; [and]
2-5 (J) varicella; and
2-6 (K) rotavirus; and
2-7 (2) any other immunization that is required by statute
2-8 or rule [law] for the child.
2-9 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10 (b) The change in law made by Section 2 of this Act applies
2-11 only to an insurance policy that is delivered, issued for delivery,
2-12 or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A policy
2-13 that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before the
2-14 effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed on
2-15 the date the insurance policy was delivered, issued for delivery,
2-16 or renewed, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.