Bill Text: TX HB3936 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage of telemedicine, teledentistry, and telehealth services provided by only synchronous or asynchronous audio interaction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Insurance [HB3936 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3936-Introduced.html
  88R14154 KBB-D
 
  By: Bhojani H.B. No. 3936
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to health benefit plan coverage of telemedicine,
  teledentistry, and telehealth services provided by only
  synchronous or asynchronous audio interaction.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1455.004(c), Insurance Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 2.  The repeal of Section 1455.004(c), Insurance
  Code, by this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan delivered,
  issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024.  A
  health benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed
  before January 1, 2024, 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 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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