Tex. Ins. Code § 1353.001 · Chapter 1353. IMMUNIZATION OR VACCINATION PROTOCOLS UNDER MANAGED CARE PLANS
PROHIBITED CONDUCT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A managed care entity may not:
(1) require a physician participating in a managed care plan to issue an immunization or vaccination protocol for an immunization or vaccination to be administered to an enrollee in the plan;
(2) limit an enrollee's benefits for immunizations or vaccinations to circumstances in which an immunization or vaccination protocol is issued;
(3) provide a financial incentive to a physician to issue an immunization or vaccination protocol; or
(4) impose a financial or other penalty on a physician who refuses to issue an immunization or vaccination protocol.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1353.htm
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- sha256 b84976553971c2996cd584662f7d1868ac78f5ae684fcb43788a170ae63e727d
- 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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