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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the definition of serious mental illness for purposes |
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of certain group health benefit plans. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 1355.001(1), Insurance Code, is amended |
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to read as follows: |
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(1) "Serious mental illness" means the following |
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psychiatric illnesses as defined by the American Psychiatric |
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Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental |
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Disorders (DSM): |
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(A) bipolar disorders (hypomanic, manic, |
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depressive, and mixed); |
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(B) depression in childhood and adolescence; |
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(C) major depressive disorders (single episode |
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or recurrent); |
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(D) obsessive-compulsive disorders; |
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(E) paranoid and other psychotic disorders; |
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(F) posttraumatic stress disorder; |
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(G) schizo-affective disorders (bipolar or |
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depressive); and |
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(H) [(G)] schizophrenia. |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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to a group health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for |
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delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014. A group health |
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benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed |
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before January 1, 2014, is governed by the law as it existed |
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immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is |
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continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |