By: Phillips H.B. No. 4213
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authorization of health benefit plans that do not
contain state-mandated health benefits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 1507, Insurance Code, is amended by
adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER C. CATASTROPHIC PLANS
Sec. 1507.100. CATASTROPHIC HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS.
Notwithstanding Subchapters A and B or any existing requirement, a
health carrier or health maintenance organization may offer a
catastrophic health benefit plan that does not include
state-mandated health benefits as described by 1507.003(a) and
1507.053(a).
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a standard health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for
delivery, or renewed on or after September 1, 2017. A policy
delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before September 1,
2017, 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.