Tex. Ins. Code § 1101.253 · Subchapter F. PROHIBITED PRACTICES RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION FOR OR OBTAINMENT OF OPIOID ANTAGONIST
PROHIBITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A life insurance company may not, based solely on whether an individual has been prescribed or has obtained through a standing order an opioid antagonist:
(1) deny coverage to the individual;
(2) limit the amount, extent, or kind of coverage available to the individual; or
(3) charge the individual or a group to which the individual belongs a rate that is different from the rate charged to other individuals or groups, respectively, for the same coverage, unless the charge is based on sound underwriting or actuarial principles reasonably related to actual or anticipated loss experience for a particular risk.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 515 (S.B. 437), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
Redesignated by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (H.B. 3607), Sec. 21.001(59), eff. September 1, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1101.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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