Amend Floor Amendment No. 50 to CSHB 7 by striking the added 
SECTION and substituting the following SECTION, appropriately 
numbered, and renumbering the existing sections appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Section 1551.109, Insurance Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 1551.109.  CONTINUING ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF 
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.  (a)  
Subject to Section 1551.351, on application to the board of 
trustees and arrangement for payment of contributions, an 
individual participating in the group benefits program on August 
31, 2003, as a current or former member of a governing body with 
administrative responsibility over a state agency created under a 
statute of this state that has statewide jurisdiction and whose 
employees are covered by this chapter or as a current or former 
member of [the State Board of Education or] the governing body of an 
institution of higher education remains eligible for participation 
in a health benefit plan offered under this chapter if a lapse in 
coverage has not occurred.
	(b)  A participant described by Subsection (a) [this section] 
may not receive a state contribution for premiums.  The governing 
body of an institution of higher education may pay from local funds 
part or all of the contributions the state would pay for similar 
coverage of other participants in the group benefits program.
	(c)  The participant's contribution for coverage under a 
health benefit plan may not be greater than the contribution for 
continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Pub. L. No. 99-272).
	(d)  Subject to Section 1551.351, a current or former member 
of the State Board of Education is eligible to participate in and 
receive a state contribution for coverage in a health benefit plan 
offered under this chapter.