Bill Text: TX HB2911 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to participation in the uniform group coverage program for active school employees and additional state aid for public schools that do not participate in that program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Filed [HB2911 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2911-Introduced.html
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| By: Frank | H.B. No. 2911 | |
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| relating to participation in the uniform group coverage program for | ||
| active school employees and additional state aid for public schools | ||
| that do not participate in that program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1579.155, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), a [ |
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| participating entity that elects to discontinue participation in | ||
| the program under Subsection (a) may not elect to: | ||
| (1) participate in the program until the fifth | ||
| anniversary of the effective date of the entity's election to | ||
| discontinue participation; or | ||
| (2) discontinue the entity's participation after an | ||
| election described by Subdivision (1) until the fifth anniversary | ||
| of the effective date of that election. | ||
| (b-1) A participating entity that elected to discontinue | ||
| participation in the program between September 1, 2021, and | ||
| September 1, 2023, may elect to participate in the program before | ||
| the fifth anniversary of the effective date of that election. This | ||
| subsection expires September 1, 2030. | ||
| SECTION 2. Effective September 1, 2027, Subchapter F, | ||
| Chapter 48, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 48.276 to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.276. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR CERTAIN GROUP HEALTH | ||
| COVERAGE. (a) This section applies only to a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school that does not participate in the | ||
| uniform group coverage program established under Chapter 1579, | ||
| Insurance Code. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school to | ||
| which this section applies is entitled to additional state aid in an | ||
| amount equal to the product of: | ||
| (1) the quotient of: | ||
| (A) the amount appropriated in the General | ||
| Appropriations Act to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for | ||
| purposes of health care for public education active employees; and | ||
| (B) the total number of employees employed by | ||
| districts and schools to which this section applies; and | ||
| (2) the number of employees employed by the district | ||
| or school. | ||
| (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| use money provided under this section only to pay contributions | ||
| under a group health coverage plan for district or school | ||
| employees. | ||
| SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
