Amend CSHB 3257 on page 11, between lines 14 and 15, by 
inserting the following:
	Sec. 4F.  EQUITABILITY IN NEGOTIATED RATES.  (a)  A health 
benefit plan used to provide coverage under the program must be 
designed to ensure that an employee who purchases coverage under 
the health benefit plan through the employee's health reimbursement 
arrangement account is entitled to pay a physician or other health 
care provider for services provided to the employee that are not 
reimbursed from the account at the same rate negotiated with the 
physician or other health care provider by the approved health 
benefit plan provider for provision of those services under the 
plan.
	(b)  Subsection (a) of this section applies to medical 
services, dental services, and vision care services.