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

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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]

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  By: Oliverson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 1592
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
  May 1, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
  Human Services; May 21, 2023, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
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.
 
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