Bill Text: TX HB32 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to required individual health insurance coverage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 60-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Returned to committee [HB32 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB32-Comm_Sub.html
82R6378 PMO-F | |||
By: Creighton, Zerwas, Schwertner, Hancock, | H.B. No. 32 | ||
Shelton, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 32: | |||
By: Miller of Erath | C.S.H.B. No. 32 |
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relating to required individual health insurance coverage. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 8, Insurance Code, is amended | ||
by adding Chapter 1220 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 1220. INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE NOT REQUIRED | ||
Sec. 1220.001. COVERAGE MANDATE PROHIBITED; EXCEPTIONS. | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), an individual | ||
may not be required to obtain or maintain coverage under an | ||
individual health insurance policy. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an individual who is | ||
required to obtain or maintain health benefit plan coverage: | ||
(1) by an institution of higher education at which the | ||
individual is or will be enrolled as a student; or | ||
(2) under an order requiring medical support for a | ||
child. | ||
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to an individual | ||
voluntarily applying for benefits under a state-administered | ||
program under Title XIX, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section | ||
1396 et seq.), or Title XXI, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section | ||
1397aa et seq.). | ||
Sec. 1220.002. PENALTY PROHIBITED. (a) Except as provided | ||
by Subsection (b), a fine or penalty may not be imposed on an | ||
individual if the individual chooses not to obtain or maintain | ||
coverage under an individual health insurance policy. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a fine or penalty | ||
imposed on an individual described in Section 1220.001(b) for the | ||
individual's failure to obtain or maintain health benefit plan | ||
coverage. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2011. |