Bill Amendment: TX HB1649 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to health benefit coverage for certain fertility preservation services and notice regarding certain risks of impaired fertility.

Status: 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1649 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1649-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F3-Kolkhorst.html

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Amend HB 1649 (senate committee report) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 2 of the bill providing transition language (page 2, line 20), strike "This Act applies" and substitute "Subchapter C, Chapter 1366, Insurance Code, as added by this Act, applies".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subchapter X to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER X. INFORMATION REGARDING RISK OF IMPAIRED FERTILITY FROM CANCER TREATMENTS

Sec. 161.681.  NOTICE FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY OR RADIATION. (a) A health care facility at which a child will begin receiving chemotherapy or radiation that may directly or indirectly cause impaired fertility must, before the treatment begins, notify the child's parents or legal guardians of the risk of impaired fertility from treatment.

(b)  The department shall develop and make available a written notice for a health care facility to use for purposes of this section.

SECTION ____.  Subchapter X, Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a child who will begin chemotherapy or radiation on or after the effective date of this Act.