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	Amend SB 1149 (house committee printing) in SECTION 1 of the 
bill as follows:
	(1)  In added Section 1274.001, Insurance Code (page 1, 
between lines 13 and 14), add the following new Subdivision (2) and 
renumber subdivisions appropriately:
		(2)  "Health benefit plan" means a group, blanket, or 
franchise insurance policy, a certificate issued under a group 
policy, a group hospital service contract, or a group subscriber 
contract or evidence of coverage issued by a health maintenance 
organization that provides benefits for health care services.  The 
term does not include:
			(A)  accident-only or disability income insurance 
coverage or a combination of accident-only and disability income 
insurance coverage;
			(B)  credit-only insurance coverage;                                  
			(C)  disability insurance coverage;                                   
			(D)  coverage only for a specified disease or 
illness;              
			(E)  Medicare services under a federal contract;                      
			(F)  Medicare supplement and Medicare Select 
policies regulated in accordance with federal law;
			(G)  long-term care coverage or benefits, nursing 
home care coverage or benefits, home health care coverage or 
benefits, community-based care coverage or benefits, or any 
combination of those coverages or benefits;
			(H)  coverage that provides limited-scope dental 
or vision benefits;
			(I)  coverage provided by a single service health 
maintenance organization;
			(J)  coverage issued as a supplement to liability 
insurance;        
			(K)  workers' compensation insurance coverage or 
similar insurance coverage;
			(L)  automobile medical payment insurance 
coverage;                 
			(M)  a jointly managed trust authorized under 29 
U.S.C. Section 141 et seq. that contains a plan of benefits for 
employees that is negotiated in a collective bargaining agreement 
governing wages, hours, and working conditions of the employees 
that is authorized under 29 U.S.C. Section 157;
			(N)  hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity 
insurance coverage;
			(O)  reinsurance contracts issued on a stop-loss, 
quota-share, or similar basis;
			(P)  liability insurance coverage, including 
general liability insurance and automobile liability insurance 
coverage; or
			(Q)  coverage that provides other limited 
benefits specified by federal regulations.
	(2)  In added Section 1274.002, Insurance Code (page 3, line 
11), between "STATUS." and "Each", insert "(a)".
	(3)  In added Section 1274.002, Insurance Code (page 4, 
between lines 9 and 10), insert Subsection (b) to read as follows:
	(b)  Information required to be made available under this 
section may be made available only to a participating provider who 
is authorized under state and federal law to receive personally 
identifiable information on an enrollee or dependent.