85R10717 SMT-D
By: Bonnen of Galveston H.B. No. 3102
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prior authorization requirement for certain
prescription eye drops and related medications.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 1369, Insurance Code, is
amended by adding Section 1369.006 to read as follows:
Sec. 1369.006. PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS PROHIBITED. A health benefit plan that covers prescription
eye drops or other topical medications used to treat a disease or
condition of the eye or adnexa may not require that an enrollee
receive prior authorization for the eye drops or other topical
medications.
SECTION 2. Section 1369.006, Insurance Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan delivered, issued
for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2018. A health
benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before
January 1, 2018, 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, 2017.