Bill Text: TX SB1065 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to coverage for diagnostic imaging for breast cancer under certain health benefit plans.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1065 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1065-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to coverage for diagnostic imaging for breast cancer under certain health benefit plans.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1065 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1065-Comm_Sub.html
87R24737 MEW-D | ||
By: Alvarado, et al. | S.B. No. 1065 | |
(Bernal) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1065: No. |
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relating to coverage for diagnostic imaging for breast cancer under | ||
certain health benefit plans. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 1356, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 1356. MAMMOGRAPHY AND OTHER BREAST IMAGING | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1356.001(1-a), Insurance Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(1-a) "Diagnostic imaging [ |
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imaging examination using mammography, ultrasound imaging, or | ||
magnetic resonance imaging that is designed to evaluate: | ||
(A) a subjective or objective abnormality | ||
detected by a physician or patient in a breast; | ||
(B) an abnormality seen by a physician on a | ||
screening mammogram; | ||
(C) an abnormality previously identified by a | ||
physician as probably benign in a breast for which follow-up | ||
imaging is recommended by a physician; or | ||
(D) an individual with a personal history of | ||
breast cancer or dense breast tissue. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 1356.005(a-1), Insurance Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for a | ||
screening mammogram must provide coverage for [ |
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imaging [ |
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a screening mammogram. | ||
SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or | ||
renewed on or after January 1, 2022. A health benefit plan that is | ||
delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2022, | ||
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 6. The Texas Department of Insurance, the Employees | ||
Retirement System of Texas, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, | ||
The University of Texas System, The Texas A&M University System, | ||
and any other state agency or institution subject to this Act are | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, those agencies may, but are not required to, implement a | ||
provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |