Bill Text: TX SB813 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to benefit plan coverage for autism spectrum disorder.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Referred to State Affairs [SB813 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB813-Introduced.html

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83R3814 TJS-D
By: Davis S.B. No. 813

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to benefit plan coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1355.015(e), Insurance Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) This section applies to a group health benefit plan
described by Section 1355.002 and, notwithstanding Section
1355.002(a) or [Notwithstanding] any other law, this section also
applies [does not apply] to:
(1) an individual health benefit plan that provides
benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a
health condition, accident, or sickness, including an insurance
policy, agreement, contract, or evidence of coverage offered by an
entity described by Sections 1355.002(a)(1)(A)-(E);
(2) a small employer health benefit plan subject to
Chapter 1501;
(3) an employee welfare benefit plan that provides
health benefits and that is established in accordance with the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Section
1001, et seq.), including a self-insured or self-funded employee
welfare benefit plan; and
(4) a standard health benefit plan provided under
Chapter 1507.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an insurance policy, agreement, contract, evidence of coverage,
or other plan document delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed
on or after January 1, 2014. An insurance policy, agreement,
contract, evidence of coverage, or other plan document delivered,
issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2014, is governed
by the law in effect 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, 2013.