Bill Text: TX HB3164 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to contracts between advanced practice registered nurses and health maintenance organizations, preferred provider benefit plans or other insurers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Public Health [HB3164 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB3164-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Hancock H.B. No. 3164
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to contracts between advanced practice registered nurses
  and health maintenance organizations, preferred provider benefit
  plans or other insurers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 843, Insurance Code, is
  amended by adding Section 843.3116 to read as follows:
         Sec. 843.3116.  CONTRACTS WITH ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED
  NURSES.  An advanced practice registered nurse whose services are
  provided within the limits of their knowledge, skills and training
  pursuant to a contract with a health maintenance organization is
  not subject to the requirements in Chapter 157 of the Occupations
  Code.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 1301, Insurance Code, is amended by
  adding Section 1301.070 to read as follows:
         Section 1301.070  CONTRACTS WITH ADVANCED PRACTICE
  REGISTERED NURSES.  An advanced practice registered nurse whose
  services are provided within the limits of their knowledge, skills
  and training pursuant to a contract with a preferred provider is not
  subject to the requirements in Chapter 157 of the Occupations Code.
         SECTION 3.  Section 1451.106, Subchapter E, Chapter 1451,
  Insurance Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1451.106.  SELECTION OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE.  An
  insured may select an advanced practice nurse to provide the
  services scheduled in the health insurance policy that are within
  the scope of the nurse's license. An advanced practice registered
  nurse whose services are provided within the limits of their
  knowledge, skills and training is not subject to the requirements
  in Chapter 157 of the Occupations Code.
         SECTION 4.  Sections 843.3116 and 1451.2066, Insurance Code,
  as added by this Act, apply only to a contract entered into or
  renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A contract
  entered into or renewed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
  of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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