Bill Text: TX HB536 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to covered benefits under the child health plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB536 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB536-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 536 | |
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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 (h) and | ||
| (i) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) In modifying the plan, the executive commissioner, | ||
| except as provided by Subsection (h), 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. | ||
| (h) Subject to Subsection (i), the child health plan must | ||
| provide coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs, supplies, | ||
| or devices approved by the United States Food and Drug | ||
| Administration. The child health plan may not provide coverage for | ||
| abortifacients or any other drug or device that terminates a | ||
| pregnancy. | ||
| (i) The child health plan may provide coverage for | ||
| prescription contraceptive drugs, supplies, or devices for an | ||
| enrolled child younger than 18 years of age for the purpose of | ||
| primary and preventive reproductive health care only if the | ||
| prescribing or dispensing health care provider receives written | ||
| consent from the enrolled child's parent, guardian, or managing | ||
| conservator, from another adult if authorized under Section 32.001, | ||
| Family Code, or from the enrolled child if authorized under Section | ||
| 32.003, Family Code, for the prescription or dispensing of the | ||
| contraceptive drug, supply, or device. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
