Amend HB 1183, on third reading, by inserting a new SECTION 3
of the bill to read as follows and renumbering the subsequent
SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
      SECTION 3.  Subsection (D), Section 2, Chapter 397, Acts of
the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955 (Article 3.70-2,
Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), is amended to read as follows:
      (D) No individual policy or group policy of accident and
sickness insurance delivered or issued for delivery to any person
in this state which provides coverage for mental illness or mental
retardation or both mental illness and mental retardation shall
exclude benefits for the support, maintenance and treatment of such
mental illness or mental retardation provided by a tax supported
institution of the State of Texas, including community centers for
mental health and mental retardation services, provided charges for
the care or treatment of such mental illness or mental retardation
are regularly and customarily charged to non-indigent patients by
such tax supported institution.  In determining whether or not a
patient is a non-indigent patient, as provided by Sections 552.012
and 552.013, Health and Safety Code <in Chapter 152, Acts of the
45th Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 3196a, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes)>, such tax supported institution shall
consider any insurance policy (or policies) which provides coverage
for mental illness or mental retardation or both mental illness and
mental retardation to such patients.