Bill Text: TX HB141 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to covered benefits under the child health plan.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB141 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB141-Introduced.html
88R1916 BDP-F | ||
By: Howard | H.B. No. 141 |
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relating to covered benefits under the child health plan. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 62.151, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (g) and | ||
(h) to read as follows: | ||
(c) In modifying the plan, the executive commissioner, | ||
except as provided by Subsection (g), shall ensure that primary and | ||
preventive health benefits do not include reproductive services, | ||
other than prenatal care and care related to diseases, illnesses, | ||
or abnormalities related to the reproductive system. | ||
(g) Subject to Subsection (h), the child health plan must | ||
provide coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs, supplies, | ||
or devices approved by the United States Food and Drug | ||
Administration. The child health plan may not provide coverage for | ||
abortifacients or any other drug or device that terminates a | ||
pregnancy. | ||
(h) The child health plan may provide coverage for | ||
prescription contraceptive drugs, supplies, or devices for an | ||
enrolled child younger than 18 years of age for the purpose of | ||
primary and preventive reproductive health care only if the | ||
prescribing or dispensing health care provider receives written | ||
consent from the enrolled child's parent, guardian, or managing | ||
conservator, from another adult if authorized under Section 32.001, | ||
Family Code, or from the enrolled child if authorized under Section | ||
32.003, Family Code, for the prescription or dispensing of the | ||
contraceptive drug, supply, or device. | ||
SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |