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.