81R10243 PMO-D
By: Carona S.B. No. 1479
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to exemptions from certain mandated benefit requirements
in supplemental or limited coverage health benefit plans.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle G, Title 8, Insurance Code, is amended
by adding Chapter 1509 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 1509. SUPPLEMENTAL OR LIMITED COVERAGE PLANS
Sec. 1509.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "supplemental
or limited coverage plan" means a dental plan, a vision plan, an
accident-only plan, a limited benefits plan, and other supplemental
insurance policies as designated by the commissioner.
Sec. 1509.002. EXEMPTION. A supplemental or limited
coverage plan is not required to provide coverage for a
state-mandated benefit, as that term is used by Chapter 1507.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an insurance policy or
contract or evidence of coverage that is delivered, issued for
delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2010. An insurance
policy or contract or evidence of coverage delivered, issued for
delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2010, 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, 2009.