Tex. Ins. Code § 1660.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
APPLICABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter applies only to a health benefit plan that provides benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident, or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket, or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement, a group hospital service contract, or an individual or group evidence of coverage or similar coverage document that is offered by:
(1) an insurance company;
(2) a group hospital service corporation operating under Chapter 842;
(3) a fraternal benefit society operating under Chapter 885;
(4) a stipulated premium insurance company operating under Chapter 884;
(5) a reciprocal exchange operating under Chapter 942;
(6) a health maintenance organization operating under Chapter 843;
(7) a multiple employer welfare arrangement that holds a certificate of authority under Chapter 846; or
(8) an approved nonprofit health corporation that holds a certificate of authority under Chapter 844.
(b) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a Medicaid managed care program operated under Chapter 540 or 540A, Government Code, as applicable;
(2) a Medicaid program operated under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code;
(3) the state child health plan or any similar plan operated under Chapter 62 or 63, Health and Safety Code; or
(4) a health benefit plan offered by an insurer or health maintenance organization that provides coverage only for dental services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 209 (H.B. 522), Sec. 1, eff. May 25, 2007.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 2.137, eff. April 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1660.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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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Human Resources Code
Insurance Code
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 842GROUP HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATIONSPrinted as Chapter 842
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 843HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONSPrinted as Chapter 843
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 846MULTIPLE EMPLOYER WELFARE ARRANGEMENTSPrinted as Chapter 846
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 884STIPULATED PREMIUM INSURANCE COMPANIESPrinted as Chapter 884
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 885FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIESPrinted as Chapter 885
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 942RECIPROCAL AND INTERINSURANCE EXCHANGESPrinted as Chapter 942
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