Tex. Ins. Code § 1216.004 · Chapter 1216. OUT-OF-COUNTRY COVERAGE PROHIBITED
OUT-OF-COUNTRY CARE PROHIBITED.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A health benefit plan issuer may not issue or offer for sale in this state a health benefit plan that requires an enrollee to travel to a foreign country to receive a particular health care service under the health benefit plan.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1322 (S.B. 1391), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.
Renumbered from Insurance Code, Section 1215.004 by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 27.001(62), eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1216.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 8ffe3208521dc9708839f5b12ccf7edc39b4acce0b286a168c1e18509b1904c5
- Composed by
- 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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