Bill Text: TX HB1592 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 1592

Bill Title: Relating to the application of balance billing prohibitions and out-of-network dispute resolution procedures to certain self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1592 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1592-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 1592




	AN ACT
	relating to the application of balance billing prohibitions and
	out-of-network dispute resolution procedures to certain
	self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 1275.002, Insurance Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 1275.002. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. This chapter
	applies only to:
	(1) a health benefit plan offered by a nonprofit
	agricultural organization under Chapter 1682; and
	(2) a health benefit plan:
	(A) that is a self-insured or self-funded plan
	established by an employer for the benefit of the employer's
	employees in accordance with the Employee Retirement Income
	Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Section 1001 et seq.); and
	(B) for which the plan sponsor has made an
	election, submitted to the commissioner in the form and manner
	prescribed by the commissioner, to apply this chapter to the plan
	for the relevant plan year.
	SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, the
	commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules necessary to implement
	the change in law made by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1592 was passed by the House on April
	28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1592 was passed by the Senate on May
	23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor