Bill Text: TX HB2447 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to prohibited actions regarding health benefit plan coverage for enrollees who refuse to have an abortion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-11 - Referred to Insurance [HB2447 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2447-Introduced.html
  86R13552 SCL-D
 
  By: Swanson H.B. No. 2447
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to prohibited actions regarding health benefit plan
  coverage for enrollees who refuse to have an abortion.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 1454, Insurance Code, is
  amended by adding Section 1454.003 to read as follows:
         Sec. 1454.003.  LOSS OF COVERAGE FOR ABORTION REFUSAL
  PROHIBITED. A health benefit plan issuer may not condition
  continued health benefit coverage for an enrollee on the enrollee
  having or require the enrollee to have an abortion regardless of
  whether a physician or health care practitioner has diagnosed the
  enrollee's unborn child as unviable or having a fetal abnormality.
         SECTION 2.  The heading to Chapter 1696, Insurance Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 1696. COVERAGE FOR AND REQUIREMENT TO HAVE ELECTIVE
  ABORTION; PROHIBITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
         SECTION 3.  The heading to Section 1696.002, Insurance Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1696.002.  PROHIBITED COVERAGE AND REQUIREMENTS
  THROUGH HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE.
         SECTION 4.  Section 1696.002, Insurance Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  An issuer of a qualified plan offered through a health
  benefit exchange may not condition continued health benefit
  coverage for an enrollee on the enrollee having or require the
  enrollee to have an abortion regardless of whether a physician or
  health care practitioner has diagnosed the enrollee's unborn child
  as unviable or having a fetal abnormality.
         SECTION 5.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a health benefit or qualified plan delivered, issued for delivery,
  or renewed on or after January 1, 2020.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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