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2025 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code
Title 8 - Health Insurance and Other Health Coverages
Subtitle E - Benefits Payable Under Health Coverages
Chapter 1355 - Benefits for Certain Mental Disorders
Subchapter E. Benefits for Treatment by Tax-Supported Institution
Section 1355.202. Prohibition of Exclusion of Mental Health or Intellectual Disability Benefits for Treatment by Tax-Supported Institution

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TX Ins Code § 1355.202 (2025)
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Sec. 1355.202. PROHIBITION OF EXCLUSION OF MENTAL HEALTH OR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY BENEFITS FOR TREATMENT BY TAX-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION. (a) An individual or group accident and health insurance policy delivered or issued for delivery to a person in this state that provides coverage for mental illness or intellectual disability may not exclude benefits under that coverage for support, maintenance, and treatment provided by a tax-supported institution of this state, or by a community center for mental health services or intellectual disability services, that regularly and customarily charges patients who are not indigent for those services.

(b) In determining whether a patient is not indigent, as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Health and Safety Code, a tax-supported institution of this state or a community center for mental health services or intellectual disability services shall consider any insurance policy or policies that provide coverage to the patient for mental illness or intellectual disability.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.

Amended by:

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 30 (H.B. 446), Sec. 8.06, eff. September 1, 2023.

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