Bill Text: TX HB2447 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited actions regarding health benefit plan coverage for enrollees who refuse to have an abortion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-11 - Referred to Insurance [HB2447 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2447-Introduced.html
86R13552 SCL-D | ||
By: Swanson | H.B. No. 2447 |
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relating to prohibited actions regarding health benefit plan | ||
coverage for enrollees who refuse to have an abortion. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 1454, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1454.003 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1454.003. LOSS OF COVERAGE FOR ABORTION REFUSAL | ||
PROHIBITED. A health benefit plan issuer may not condition | ||
continued health benefit coverage for an enrollee on the enrollee | ||
having or require the enrollee to have an abortion regardless of | ||
whether a physician or health care practitioner has diagnosed the | ||
enrollee's unborn child as unviable or having a fetal abnormality. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 1696, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 1696. COVERAGE FOR AND REQUIREMENT TO HAVE ELECTIVE | ||
ABORTION; PROHIBITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS | ||
SECTION 3. The heading to Section 1696.002, Insurance Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1696.002. PROHIBITED COVERAGE AND REQUIREMENTS | ||
THROUGH HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 1696.002, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) An issuer of a qualified plan offered through a health | ||
benefit exchange may not condition continued health benefit | ||
coverage for an enrollee on the enrollee having or require the | ||
enrollee to have an abortion regardless of whether a physician or | ||
health care practitioner has diagnosed the enrollee's unborn child | ||
as unviable or having a fetal abnormality. | ||
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a health benefit or qualified plan delivered, issued for delivery, | ||
or renewed on or after January 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |