Compare TX HB 778 (2025) and TX SB 1257 (2025)

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B. No. 778 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subtitle E, Title 8, Insurance Code, is amended by adding Chapter 1373 to read as follows: CHAPTER 1373. REQUIRED COVERAGE OF GENDER TRANSITION ADVERSE EFFECTS AND REVERSALS Sec. 1373.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Gender transition" means a medical process by which an individual's anatomy, physiology, or mental state is treated or altered, including by the removal of otherwise healthy organs or tissue, the introduction of implants or performance of other plastic surgery, hor…B. No. 1257 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subtitle E, Title 8, Insurance Code, is amended by adding Chapter 1373 to read as follows: CHAPTER 1373. REQUIRED COVERAGE OF GENDER TRANSITION ADVERSE EFFECTS AND REVERSALS Sec. 1373.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Gender transition" means a medical process by which an individual's anatomy, physiology, or mental state is treated or altered, including by the removal of otherwise healthy organs or tissue, the introduction of implants or performance of other plastic surgery, ho…
all possible adverse consequences related to the enrollee's gender transition procedure or treatment, including any short- or long-term side effects of the procedure or treatment; (2) anyall possible adverse consequences related to the enrollee's gender transition procedure or treatment, including any short- or long-term side effects of the procedure or treatment; (2) any
testing or screening necessary to monitor the mental and physical health of the enrollee on at least an annual basistesting or screening necessary to monitor the mental and physical health of the enrollee on at least an annual basis
the enrollee's gender transition procedure or treatment. (b) A health benefit plan that offers coverage for a gender transition procedure or treatment shall also provide the coverage described by Subsection (a) to any enrollee who has undergone a gender transition procedure or treatment regardless of whether the enrollee was enrolled in the plan at the time of the procedure or treatment. SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that provisi…the enrollee's gender transition procedure or treatment. (b) A health benefit plan that offers coverage for a gender transition procedure or treatment shall also provide the coverage described by Subsection (a) to any enrollee who has undergone a gender transition procedure or treatment regardless of whether the enrollee was enrolled in the plan at the time of the procedure or treatment. SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that provisi…