By:  Taylor                                                       H.B. No. 2762



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool.                             
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 1506.002(b), Insurance Code, as 
effective April 1, 2005, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  In this chapter, "health benefit plan" does not include:                  
		(1)  short-term insurance;                                             
		(2)  accident insurance;                                               
		(3)  a plan providing coverage only for dental or 
vision care;       
		(4)  fixed indemnity insurance, including hospital 
indemnity insurance;
		(5) [(2)]  credit insurance;                          
		(6) [(3)]  long-term care insurance;                  
		(7) [(4)]  disability income insurance;               
		(8)  other limited benefit coverage, including 
specified disease coverage;
		(9) [(5)]  coverage issued as a supplement to liability 
insurance;
		(10) [(6)]  insurance arising out of a workers' 
compensation law or similar law;
		(11) [(7)]  automobile medical payment insurance; or  
		(12) [(8)]  insurance coverage under which benefits 
are payable with or without regard to fault and that is statutorily 
required to be contained in a liability insurance policy or 
equivalent self-insurance.
	SECTION 2.  In accordance with Section 311.031(c), 
Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment 
enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute, 
the text of Section 1506.002(b), Insurance Code, as set out in 
Section 1 of this Act, gives effect to changes made by Sections 1 
and 11, Chapter 840, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 
2003.
	SECTION 3.  The definition of "health benefit plan" amended 
by Sec. 1 of this Act shall apply to assessments for the calendar 
year during which this Act takes effect.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.