Bill Text: TX HB2250 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 2250 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage for colon cancer screening for certain individuals.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2250 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB2250-Comm_Sub.html

	87R8732 MWC-D

	By: Johnson of Dallas, Guillen	H.B. No. 2250



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to health benefit plan coverage for colon cancer screening
	for certain individuals.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 1363.003(a), Insurance Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for
	screening medical procedures must provide [~~to each individual~~
	~~enrolled in the plan who is 50 years of age or older and at normal~~
	~~risk for developing colon cancer~~] coverage for expenses incurred in
	conducting a medically recognized screening examination for the
	detection of colorectal cancer to each individual enrolled in the
	plan who is 45 years of age or older.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or
	renewed on or after January 1, 2022. A health benefit plan that is
	delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2022,
	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, 2021.