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1	1	By: Cook (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 755
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 2011;
3	3	April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State
4	4	Affairs; May 6, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
5	5	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 6, 2011, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to eligibility of certain dependents for coverage under
11	11	the state employee group benefits program.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 1551.004(a), Insurance Code, is amended
14	14	to read as follows:
15	15	(a) In this chapter, "dependent" with respect to an
16	16	individual eligible to participate in the group benefits program
17	17	under Section 1551.101 or 1551.102 means the individual's:
18	18	(1) spouse;
19	19	(2) unmarried child younger than 25 years of age;
20	20	(3) child of any age who the board of trustees
21	21	determines lives with or has the child's care provided by the
22	22	individual on a regular basis if:
23	23	(A) the child is mentally retarded or physically
24	24	incapacitated to the extent that the child is dependent on the
25	25	individual for care or support, as determined by the board of
26	26	trustees;
27	27	(B) the child's coverage under this chapter has
28	28	not lapsed; and
29	29	(C) the child is at least 25 years old and:
30	30	(i) was enrolled as a participant in the
31	31	health benefits coverage under the group benefits program on the
32	32	date of the child's 25th birthday; or
33	33	(ii) on the date the individual became
34	34	eligible to participate in the group benefits program, was enrolled
35	35	as the individual's dependent in health benefits coverage under
36	36	Chapter 1575, 1579, or 1601 or in continuation of that dependent
37	37	coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
38	38	of 1985 (Pub. L. No. 99-272) and its subsequent amendments;
39	39	(4) child of any age who is unmarried, for purposes of
40	40	health benefit coverage under this chapter, on expiration of the
41	41	child's continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus
42	42	Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Pub. L. No. 99-272) and its
43	43	subsequent amendments; and
44	44	(5) ward, as that term is defined by Section 601, Texas
45	45	Probate Code.
46	46	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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