83R8741 KKR-D
By: M. Gonzalez of El Paso H.B. No. 2178
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to covered benefits for certain persons under the child
health plan.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 62.151, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) The child health plan must provide as covered benefits
prescription contraceptive drugs or devices approved by the United
States Food and Drug Administration and outpatient contraceptive
services for an enrollee who is at least 15 years of age and who is
the birth mother of at least one child. This subsection does not
require coverage of abortifacients or any other drug or device that
terminates a pregnancy.
SECTION 2. Section 62.151(c), Health and Safety Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. If before implementing any provision of this Act
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
waiver or authorization is granted.
SECTION 4. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.