Bill Text: TX SB2003 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage for ovarian cancer screening.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2015-04-14 - Left pending in committee [SB2003 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB2003-Introduced.html

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84R12080 LED-D
By: Eltife S.B. No. 2003

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to health benefit plan coverage for ovarian cancer
screening.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 1370, Insurance Code, is
amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 1370. CERTAIN TESTS FOR DETECTION OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS,
OVARIAN CANCER, AND CERVICAL CANCER
SECTION 2. Sections 1370.003(a) and (b), Insurance Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for
diagnostic medical procedures must provide to each woman 18 years
of age or older enrolled in the plan coverage for expenses for an
annual medically recognized diagnostic examination for the early
detection of ovarian cancer and cervical cancer.
(b) Coverage required under this section includes at a
minimum:
(1) a CA 125 blood test; and
(2) a conventional Pap smear screening or a screening
using liquid-based cytology methods, as approved by the United
States Food and Drug Administration, alone or in combination with a
test approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for
the detection of the human papillomavirus.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a health benefit plan that is delivered, issued for delivery, or
renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A plan that is
delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.