78S10606 DLF-D

By:  Uresti                                                       H.B. No. 123



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to benefits provided under the state child health plan.              
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 62.151(b), Health and Safety Code,  as 
amended by H.B. 2292, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2003, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  In developing the covered benefits, the commission 
shall consider the health care needs of healthy children and 
children with special health care needs.  The child health plan must 
provide at least the covered benefits described by the recommended 
benefits package described for a state-designed child health plan 
by the Texas House of Representatives Committee on Public Health 
"CHIP" Interim Report to the Seventy-Sixth Texas Legislature dated 
December 1998 and the Senate Interim Committee on Children's Health 
Insurance Report to the Seventy-Sixth Texas Legislature dated 
December 1, 1998.  The child health plan must include at least the 
covered benefits provided under the plan on June 1, 2003.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, if it 
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. 
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for effect on that 
date, this Act takes effect November 1, 2003.