Bill Text: TX HB2600 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to fiscal impact statements for legislation imposing mandates on health benefit plan issuers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2600 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2600-Comm_Sub.html
| 87R6826 SCL-D | ||
| By: Paul, Oliverson, Middleton, Hull, | H.B. No. 2600 | |
| Sanford, et al. | ||
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| relating to fiscal impact statements for legislation imposing | ||
| mandates on health benefit plan issuers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 314, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 314.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 314.006. FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR HEALTH BENEFIT | ||
| PLAN MANDATES. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Enrollee" means an individual who is enrolled in | ||
| a health benefit plan, including a covered dependent. | ||
| (2) "Health benefit plan issuer" means an insurer, | ||
| health maintenance organization, or other entity authorized to | ||
| provide health benefits coverage under the laws of this state. | ||
| (3) "Health care provider" means a physician or other | ||
| person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized to | ||
| provide a health care service in this state. | ||
| (b) The board shall prepare a fiscal impact statement for | ||
| each bill or joint resolution that requires a health benefit plan | ||
| issuer to provide new health benefits, increase payments to health | ||
| care providers, or implement new contractual or administrative | ||
| requirements. | ||
| (c) The fiscal impact statement must estimate the effect of | ||
| the bill or joint resolution on health benefit plan issuer | ||
| expenditures and on premiums and other costs paid by enrollees. | ||
| (d) The fiscal impact statement must be attached to the bill | ||
| or joint resolution immediately following: | ||
| (1) the fiscal note attached under Section 314.003; or | ||
| (2) another statement attached under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 314.006, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a bill or joint resolution filed on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
