Bill Text: TX HB1635 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the commissioner of insurance to request a state innovation waiver for certain small group health benefit plans of certain federal actuarial value and level of coverage requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1635 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1635-Introduced.html
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By: Smithee | H.B. No. 1635 |
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relating to the authority of the commissioner of insurance to | ||
request a state innovation waiver for certain small group health | ||
benefit plans of certain federal actuarial value and level of | ||
coverage requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 1501, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1501.2561 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1501.2561. WAIVER OF CERTAIN FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS. | ||
The commissioner may apply to and negotiate with the United States | ||
secretary of health and human services to obtain a waiver under 42 | ||
U.S.C. Section 18052 for small employer health benefit plans of the | ||
actuarial value requirements and related levels of health plan | ||
coverage requirements imposed under 42 U.S.C. Section 18022(d)(3). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |