By: Brown S.B. No. 505 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring students enrolled at certain medical and 1-3 dental units to have health insurance coverage. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 51.961 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.961. STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE. (a) The governing 1-8 board of a medical and dental unit may require a student enrolled 1-9 at a medical and dental unit to have in effect during the calendar 1-10 year of enrollment a health insurance policy for health care 1-11 services received by the student. 1-12 (b) The governing board of a medical and dental unit shall 1-13 determine the minimum coverage standards for health insurance 1-14 required under this section. 1-15 (c) If the student agrees in writing, the medical and dental 1-16 unit shall provide a reasonable estimate of the cost of the health 1-17 insurance coverage within the student's cost of education for 1-18 financial aid purposes. 1-19 (d) If a governing board of a medical and dental unit 1-20 requires health insurance coverage for students under Subsection 1-21 (a), a student may be provisionally enrolled at the medical and 1-22 dental unit for one academic session without the coverage in order 1-23 to allow the student time to obtain the coverage. 1-24 (e) The governing board of a medical and dental unit may 1-25 adopt such other rules and regulations as it determines necessary 2-1 to carry out the purposes of this section. 2-2 (f) In this section, "governing board" and "medical and 2-3 dental unit" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-5 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-6 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-7 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-8 Act takes effect August 27, 2001.