Tex. Ins. Code § 524.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
TEXLINK TO HEALTH COVERAGE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall develop and implement a health coverage program that complies with this chapter. The program must:
(1) educate the public about the importance and value of health coverage;
(2) promote personal responsibility for health care through the purchase of health coverage;
(3) assist small employers, individuals, and others seeking to purchase health coverage with technical information necessary to understand available health insurance coverage;
(4) promote and facilitate the development and availability of new health coverage options;
(5) increase public awareness of health coverage options available in this state; and
(6) provide information on health coverage options, including health savings accounts and compatible high deductible health benefit plans.
(b) The program must include a public awareness and education component.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 688 (S.B. 261), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 721 (S.B. 78), Sec. 1.01, 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.524.htm
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- sha256 44b595316f2344b07fd2c6f0dcbff044f7f525e6c039fb176d04ee01e9d6335f
- 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
- the Legislature enacted more than one unit numbered 524.003; this is the one the Council prints in IN.524.htm
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