Bill Text: TX HB3227 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to coverage of certain eating disorders as serious mental illnesses under certain group health benefit plans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-13 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3227-Engrossed.html
83R5780 SCL-D | ||
By: Coleman, Turner of Tarrant, Moody, Walle, | H.B. No. 3227 | |
Anchia, et al. |
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relating to coverage of certain eating disorders as serious mental | ||
illnesses under certain group health benefit plans. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1355.001(1), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Serious mental illness" means the following | ||
psychiatric illnesses as defined by the American Psychiatric | ||
Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental | ||
Disorders (DSM): | ||
(A) bipolar disorders (hypomanic, manic, | ||
depressive, and mixed); | ||
(B) depression in childhood and adolescence; | ||
(C) major depressive disorders (single episode | ||
or recurrent); | ||
(D) obsessive-compulsive disorders; | ||
(E) paranoid and other psychotic disorders; | ||
(F) schizo-affective disorders (bipolar or | ||
depressive); [ |
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(G) schizophrenia; and | ||
(H) anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and | ||
eating disorders not otherwise specified. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) On or before September 1, 2016, the Sunset | ||
Advisory Commission shall conduct a study to determine: | ||
(1) to what extent the health benefit plan coverage | ||
required by the change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
1355.001(1), Insurance Code, is being used by enrollees in health | ||
benefit plans to which Subchapter A, Chapter 1355, Insurance Code, | ||
applies; and | ||
(2) the impact of the required coverage on the cost of | ||
those health benefit plans. | ||
(b) The Sunset Advisory Commission shall report its | ||
findings under this section to the legislature on or before January | ||
1, 2017. | ||
(c) The Texas Department of Insurance and any other state | ||
agency shall cooperate with the Sunset Advisory Commission as | ||
necessary to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a group health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for | ||
delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014. A group health | ||
benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed | ||
before January 1, 2014, 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |