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Amend CSHB 2256 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                      
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 1467.057(d), 
Insurance Code (page 4, line 46), strike "Sections 151.012 and 
151.013, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, do", and substitute 
"Section 151.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, does".
	(2)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, in added Section 1301.0055(2), 
Insurance Code (page 6, line 10), strike "health care 
practitioners" and substitute "contracted physicians and health 
care providers".
	(3)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, in added Section 1301.0055, 
Insurance Code (page 6, lines 12-14), strike Subdivision (3) and 
substitute the following:
		(3)  on good cause shown, may allow departure from 
local market network adequacy standards if the commissioner posts 
on the department's Internet website the name of the preferred 
provider plan, the insurer offering the plan, and the affected 
local market.
	(4)  In SECTION 5 of the bill, in added Section 
324.101(a)(7), Health and Safety Code (page 7, line 9), strike 
"facility-based physician who" and substitute "facility-based 
physician or facility-based physician group that".
	(5)  In SECTION 5 of the bill, in added Section 
324.101(a)(8), Health and Safety Code (page 7, line 16), strike 
"facility-based physician who" and substitute "facility-based 
physician or facility-based physician group that".
	(6)  In SECTION 6 of the bill (page 7, line 20), strike "This 
Act applies" and substitute "(a) Except as provided by Subsection 
(b), this Act applies".
	(7)  In SECTION 6 of the bill (page 7, between lines 24 and 
25), insert the following:
	(b)  Section 1467.002(2), Insurance Code, as added by this 
Act, applies to a health benefit claim filed under a group policy or 
contract executed under Chapter 1551, Insurance Code, on or after 
September 1, 2010.  A claim filed under a group policy or contract 
executed under Chapter 1551, Insurance Code, before September 1, 
2010, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before 
September 1, 2010, and that law is continued in effect for that 
purpose.