Bill Text: TX HB466 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to covered benefits under the child health plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-05 - Referred to Public Health [HB466 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB466-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 466 | |
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| relating to covered benefits under the child health plan. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 62.151, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (g) and | ||
| (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) In developing the plan, the commission, except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (g), shall ensure that primary and | ||
| preventive health benefits do not include reproductive services, | ||
| other than prenatal care and care related to diseases, illnesses, | ||
| or abnormalities related to the reproductive system. | ||
| (g) Subject to Subsection (h), the child health plan must | ||
| provide as covered benefits prescription contraceptive drugs or | ||
| devices approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. | ||
| This subsection does not require coverage of abortifacients or any | ||
| other drug or device that terminates a pregnancy. | ||
| (h) The child health plan may provide as covered benefits | ||
| prescription contraceptive drugs or devices for an enrolled child | ||
| for the purpose of primary and preventive reproductive health care | ||
| only if the prescribing health care provider receives written | ||
| consent for the prescription from the enrolled child's parent, | ||
| guardian, or managing conservator. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
