Bill Text: TX HB1774 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to health benefits coverage for certain elected officials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-10 - Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services [HB1774 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1774-Introduced.html
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| By: Tinderholt | H.B. No. 1774 | |
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| relating to health benefits coverage for certain elected officials. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 1551, Insurance Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1551.2075 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1551.2075. HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN FOR CERTAIN ELECTED | ||
| OFFICIALS. (a) In this section, "elected official" means a person | ||
| who is eligible to participate in the group benefits program under | ||
| Section 1551.101 or 1551.102 based on service performed as | ||
| governor, lieutenant governor, or a member of the legislature. | ||
| (b) The board of trustees shall make available: | ||
| (1) for elected officials while in office, health | ||
| benefit plans that are reasonably comparable to coverage plans of | ||
| each tier of coverage offered under Chapter 1579; and | ||
| (2) subject to Subsection (d), for elected officials | ||
| receiving or eligible to receive a service retirement annuity, | ||
| health benefit plans that are reasonably comparable to a basic plan | ||
| offered under Chapter 1575 and the Medicare Advantage and Medicare | ||
| prescription drug plans offered under that chapter. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, an elected official is | ||
| not eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered under this | ||
| chapter other than a health benefit plan offered under this section | ||
| as provided by Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) An elected official who is eligible to enroll in | ||
| Medicare is eligible to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan or a | ||
| Medicare prescription drug plan under this section but is not | ||
| eligible to enroll in another health benefit plan under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (e) The board of trustees shall ensure an elected official | ||
| is subject to comparable premiums, deductibles, copayments, | ||
| coinsurance, and other out-of-pocket expenses as a person enrolled | ||
| in a comparable health benefit plan offered under Chapter 1575 or | ||
| 1579, as applicable. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 1551.2075, Insurance Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to group coverage provided under Chapter | ||
| 1551, Insurance Code, for a plan year beginning on or after | ||
| September 1, 2022. A plan year that begins before that date 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021 | ||
