Bill Text: TX HB4559 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to access to a county jail prisoner's health benefits coverage information for mental health service providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4559-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4559 | ||
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| relating to access to a county jail prisoner's health benefits | ||
| coverage information for mental health service providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 511, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 511.0098 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 511.0098. PRISONER HEALTH BENEFITS COVERAGE | ||
| INFORMATION; PAYMENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. (a) The | ||
| commission shall adopt procedures by which a local mental health | ||
| authority or other mental health services provider providing | ||
| services to a prisoner in a county jail under a contract with the | ||
| county may collect the following from a prisoner who receives those | ||
| services and is covered by health insurance or other health | ||
| benefits coverage: | ||
| (1) the name of the policyholder or group contract | ||
| holder; | ||
| (2) the number of the policy or evidence of coverage; | ||
| (3) a copy of the health coverage membership card, if | ||
| available; and | ||
| (4) any other information necessary for the prisoner | ||
| to obtain benefits under the coverage. | ||
| (b) A local mental health authority or other mental health | ||
| services provider who provides mental health services to a prisoner | ||
| under a contract with a county may arrange for the issuer of the | ||
| health insurance policy or other health benefits coverage to pay | ||
| for those services. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4559 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 6, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4559 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
