Bill Text: TX HB1803 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals to purchase Medicare supplement benefit plans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-10 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB1803 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1803-Engrossed.html
By: Rose | H.B. No. 1803 |
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relating to the eligibility of certain individuals to purchase | ||
Medicare supplement benefit plans. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 1652, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1652.059 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1652.059. COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS YOUNGER | ||
THAN 65. (a) In this section, "entity" means an entity that | ||
delivers or issues for delivery a Medicare supplement benefit plan | ||
in this state. | ||
(b) An entity that offers coverage under a Medicare | ||
supplement benefit plan to individuals 65 years of age or older must | ||
offer the same coverage to individuals younger than 65 years of age | ||
who are eligible for and enrolled in Medicare by reason of | ||
disability or end stage renal disease. | ||
(c) Except as otherwise provided by rules adopted under | ||
Section 1652.051, any benefit, protection, policy, or procedure | ||
applicable to coverage under a plan for an individual 65 years of | ||
age or older must apply to coverage offered under Subsection (b). | ||
(d) An entity shall offer to individuals younger than 65 | ||
years of age who are eligible for and enrolled in Medicare by reason | ||
of disability or end stage renal disease an open enrollment period | ||
for coverage offered under Subsection (b) that begins on July 1, | ||
2024, and ends not earlier than January 1, 2025. This subsection | ||
expires September 1, 2025. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a Medicare supplement benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, | ||
or renewed on or after July 1, 2024. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |