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Amend CSHB 103 (Senate committee report) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. The heading to Section 51.952, Education
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 51.952. STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE AT MEDICAL AND DENTAL
UNITS.
SECTION ____. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.9521 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9521. STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE AT GENERAL ACADEMIC
TEACHING INSTITUTIONS. (a) In this section:
(1) "Health benefit plan" means any health benefit
plan regulated under the Insurance Code, including:
(A) an individual, group, or blanket health
insurance policy; or
(B) an evidence of coverage issued by a health
maintenance organization.
(2) "High deductible health plan" has the meaning
assigned by Section 223, Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
(3) "General academic teaching institution" and
"university system" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) A general academic teaching institution shall offer or
sponsor, directly or through the university system, if any, of
which the institution is a component, one or more health benefit
plans for the students of the institution. At least one health
benefit plan offered under this section must be a high deductible
health plan.
(c) The institution shall provide each student the option
to:
(1) enroll in a health benefit plan offered under this
section at the time of the student's registration; and
(2) pay the premium or other charges for coverage
under the plan in the same payment that includes the student's
tuition and fees.
SECTION ____. Section 51.9521, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2010 fall semester.