Amend SB 10 on third reading by adding the following 
appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS 
of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  (a)  Subsection (a), Section 1207.002, 
Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A group health benefit plan issuer shall permit an 
individual who is otherwise eligible for enrollment in the plan to 
enroll in the plan, without regard to any enrollment period 
restriction, on receipt of written notice from the Health and Human 
Services Commission [or a designee of the commission stating] that 
the individual is:
		(1)  a recipient of medical assistance under the state 
Medicaid program and is a participant in the health insurance 
premium payment reimbursement program under Section 32.0422, Human 
Resources Code; or
		(2)  a child eligible for [enrolled in] the state child 
health plan under Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code, and eligible 
to participate [is a participant] in the health insurance premium 
assistance program under Section 62.059, Health and Safety Code.
	(b)  Section 1207.003, Insurance Code, is amended to read as 
follows:        
	Sec. 1207.003.  EFFECTIVE DATE OF ENROLLMENT. (a)  Unless 
enrollment occurs during an established enrollment period, 
enrollment in a group health benefit plan under Section 1207.002 
takes effect on:
		(1)  the eligibility enrollment date specified in the 
written notice from the Health and Human Services Commission under 
Section 1207.002(a); or
		(2)   the first day of the first calendar month that 
begins at least 30 days after the date written notice or a written 
request is received by the plan issuer under Section 1207.002(a) or 
(b), as applicable.
	(b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the individual must 
comply with a waiting period required under the state child health 
plan under Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code, or under the health 
insurance premium assistance program under Section 62.059, Health 
and Safety Code, as applicable.
	(c)  Subsection (b), Section 1207.004, Insurance Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Notwithstanding any other requirement of a group health 
benefit plan, the plan issuer shall permit an individual who is 
enrolled in the plan under Section 1207.002(a)(2), and any family 
member of the individual enrolled under Section 1207.002(c), to 
terminate enrollment in the plan not later than the 60th day after 
the date on which the individual provides a written request to 
disenroll from the plan because the individual [satisfactory proof 
to the issuer that the child is] no longer wishes to participate [a 
participant] in the health insurance premium assistance program 
under Section 62.059, Health and Safety Code.