81R9945 PB-D
 
  By: Coleman, Rose H.B. No. 2967
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to coverage of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as
  serious mental illnesses under certain group health benefit plans.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1355.001(1), Insurance Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
               (1)  "Serious mental illness" means the following
  psychiatric illnesses as defined by the American Psychiatric
  Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
  Disorders (DSM):
                     (A)  bipolar disorders (hypomanic, manic,
  depressive, and mixed);
                     (B)  depression in childhood and adolescence;
                     (C)  major depressive disorders (single episode
  or recurrent);
                     (D)  obsessive-compulsive disorders;
                     (E)  paranoid and other psychotic disorders;
                     (F)  schizo-affective disorders (bipolar or
  depressive); [and]
                     (G)  schizophrenia;
                     (H)  anorexia nervosa; and
                     (I)  bulimia nervosa.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  On or before September 1, 2012, the Sunset
  Advisory Commission shall conduct a study to determine:
               (1)  to what extent the health benefit plan coverage
  required by the change in law made by this Act to Section
  1355.001(1), Insurance Code, is being used by enrollees in health
  benefit plans to which Subchapter A, Chapter 1355, Insurance Code,
  applies; and
               (2)  the impact of the required coverage on the cost of
  those health benefit plans.
         (b)  The Sunset Advisory Commission shall report its
  findings under this section to the legislature on or before January
  1, 2013.
         (c)  The Texas Department of Insurance and any other state
  agency shall cooperate with the Sunset Advisory Commission as
  necessary to implement this section.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a group health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for
  delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2010. A group health
  benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed
  before January 1, 2010, is governed by the law as it existed
  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.