By: Brown S.B. No. 505
2001S0326/1
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 coveraqe.
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 a governing board of a medical or dental unit
1-16 requires health insurance coverage for students under Subsection
1-17 (a), a student may be provisionally enrolled at the medical and
1-18 dental unit for one academic session without the coverage in order
1-19 to allow the student time to obtain the coverage.
1-20 (d) The governing board of a medical and dental unit may
1-21 adopt such other rules and regulations as it determines necessary
1-22 to carry out the purposes of this section.
1-23 (e) In this section, "governing board" and "medical and
1-24 dental unit" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-1 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-2 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-3 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-4 Act takes effect August 27, 2001.