By Coleman                                             H.B. No. 849
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to coverage of anorexia as a serious mental illness under
 1-3     certain group health benefit plans.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 1(1), Article 3.51-14, Insurance Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (1)  "Serious mental illness" means the following
 1-8     psychiatric illnesses as defined by the American Psychiatric
 1-9     Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM):
1-10                       (A)  schizophrenia;
1-11                       (B)  paranoid and other psychotic disorders;
1-12                       (C)  bipolar disorders (hypomanic, manic,
1-13     depressive, and mixed);
1-14                       (D)  major depressive disorders (single episode
1-15     or recurrent);
1-16                       (E)  schizo-affective disorders (bipolar or
1-17     depressive);
1-18                       (F)  pervasive developmental disorders;
1-19                       (G)  obsessive-compulsive disorders;  [and]
1-20                       (H)  depression in childhood and adolescence;
1-21                       (I)  anorexia; and
1-22                       (J)  bulemia.
 2-1           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
 2-2     applies only to a group health benefit plan that is delivered,
 2-3     issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2002.  A
 2-4     group health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery,
 2-5     or renewed before January 1, 2002, is governed by the law as it
 2-6     existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
 2-7     law is continued in effect for that purpose.