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Amend SB 418 (house committee printing) as follows:                          

(1)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 3E, Article 	3.70-3C, Insurance Code, insert a new Subsection (h) to read as 
follows (page 13, between lines 12 and 13) and reletter subsections 
appropriately:
	(h)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, if 
an insurer declines to verify a medical care or health care service 
under this section, the physician or provider is not required to 
comply with any contractual requirement that the physician or 
provider hold a patient harmless for the medical care or health care 
service under Section 3(k) of this article.  A contract between an 
insurer and a physician or provider must provide that the exercise 
of the physician's or provider's rights under this subsection may 
not be the basis for termination of or discrimination against the 
physician or provider under the contract or the basis for a penalty 
or discrimination against the physician or provider in 
participation in other health care products or plans.
	(2)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in Subsection (c) of added 
Section 3G, Article 3.70-3C, Insurance Code, strike "mailed or 
otherwise transmitted" (page 16, lines 5-6) and substitute "issued 
and transmitted".
	(3)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 3J, Article 
3.70-3C, Insurance Code, between "process" and "claims", insert "or 
pay" (page 22, line 5).
	(4)  In SECTION 16 of the bill, in amended Section 843.344, 
Insurance Code, between "process" and "claims", insert "or pay" 
(page 39, line 1).
	(5)  In SECTION 19 of the bill, in added Section 843.347, 
Insurance Code, insert a new Subsection (h) to read as follows (page 
41, between lines 24 and 25):
	(h)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if 
a health maintenance organization declines to verify a health care 
service under this section, the physician or provider is not 
required to comply with any contractual requirement that the 
physician or provider hold a patient harmless for the health care 
service under Section 843.361.  A contract between a health 
maintenance organization and a physician or provider must provide 
that the exercise of the physician's or provider's rights under this 
subsection may not be the basis for termination of or 
discrimination against the physician or provider under the contract 
or the basis for a penalty or discrimination against the physician 
or provider in participation in other health care products or 
plans.
	(6)  In SECTION 19 of the bill, in Subsection (d) of added 
Section 843.348, Insurance Code, strike "mailed or otherwise 
transmitted" (page 42, line 19) and substitute "issued and 
transmitted".