By: Duncan S.B. No. 959
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to continued health insurance benefits for eligible
surviving spouses of certain officers and employees of political
subdivisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 615.073, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) An eligible surviving spouse of a deceased individual
listed in Section 615.071 who was employed by a political
subdivision of the state is entitled to purchase continued health
insurance benefits from the political subdivision that employed the
deceased individual, including health coverage:
(1) provided by or through a political subdivision
under:
(A) a health insurance policy or health benefit
plan written by a health insurer; or
(B) a self-insured health benefits plan; or
(2) under Chapter 172, Local Government Code.
SECTION 2. This Act is intended to clarify the law in effect
and being administered immediately before the effective date of
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately 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 immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.