1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 505
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 2001; February 5, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     March 1, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 1, 2001,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 505                   By:  Bivins
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to requiring students enrolled at certain medical and
1-11     dental units to have health insurance coverage.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 51.961 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 51.961.  STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE.  (a)  The governing
1-16     board of a medical and dental unit may require a student enrolled
1-17     at a medical and dental unit to have in effect during the calendar
1-18     year of enrollment a health insurance policy for health care
1-19     services received by the student.
1-20           (b)  The governing board of a medical and dental unit shall
1-21     determine the minimum coverage standards for health insurance
1-22     required under this section.
1-23           (c)  If the student agrees in writing, the medical and dental
1-24     unit shall provide a reasonable estimate of the cost of the health
1-25     insurance coverage within the student's cost of education for
1-26     financial aid purposes.
1-27           (d)  If a governing board of a medical and dental unit
1-28     requires health insurance coverage for students under Subsection
1-29     (a), a student may be provisionally enrolled at the medical and
1-30     dental unit for one academic session without the coverage in order
1-31     to allow the student time to obtain the coverage.
1-32           (e)  The governing board of a medical and dental unit may
1-33     adopt such other rules and regulations as it determines necessary
1-34     to carry out the purposes of this section.
1-35           (f)  In this section, "governing board" and "medical and
1-36     dental unit" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
1-37           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-38     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-39     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-40     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-41     Act takes effect August 27, 2001.
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