Amend SB 8 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike added Section 1696.001(1), Insurance Code, and substitute the following:
(1) "Elective abortion" means an abortion, as defined by Section 245.002, Health and Safety Code, other than an abortion that is:
(A) necessary to avert a woman's death or a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman; or
(B) performed to terminate a pregnancy that resulted from an act of sexual assault or incest.
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Chapter 1696, Insurance Code, add the following appropriately numbered section:
Sec. 1696.___. EXEMPTION. This chapter does not apply to health benefit plan coverage provided to an enrollee for a sexual assault kit and examination.
(3) In SECTION 2 of the bill, strike added Section 1218.001, Insurance Code, and substitute the following:
Sec. 1218.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "elective abortion" means an abortion, as defined by Section 245.002, Health and Safety Code, other than an abortion that is:
(1) necessary to avert a woman's death or a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman; or
(2) performed to terminate a pregnancy that resulted from an act of sexual assault or incest.
(4) In SECTION 2 of the bill, strike added Section 1218.003, Insurance Code, and substitute the following:
Sec. 1218.003. CERTAIN COVERAGE NOT AFFECTED. This chapter does not apply to health benefit plan coverage provided to an enrollee for:
(1) any abortion other than an elective abortion as defined by Section 1218.001; or
(2) a sexual assault kit and examination.