88R8066 SCL-D
 
  By: Hancock S.B. No. 1306
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the application of balance billing prohibitions and
  out-of-network dispute resolution procedures to certain
  self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1275.002, Insurance Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 1275.002.  APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.  This chapter
  applies only to:
               (1)  a health benefit plan offered by a nonprofit
  agricultural organization under Chapter 1682; and
               (2)  a health benefit plan:
                     (A)  that is a self-insured or self-funded plan
  established by an employer for the benefit of the employer's
  employees in accordance with the Employee Retirement Income
  Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Section 1001 et seq.); and
                     (B)  for which the plan sponsor has made an
  election, submitted to the commissioner in the form and manner
  prescribed by the commissioner, to apply this chapter to the plan
  for the relevant plan year.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2023, the
  commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules necessary to implement
  the change in law made by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.