Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services.
This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.
- Stage
- Session ended
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +4
- Latest action
- Feb 1, 2024
Where it stands
Introduced (Current step)
Committee (Needs attention)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What it does
Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic daytreatment services. Requires health insurers providing healthcare plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment servicesfor children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in thein bill as children who have a mental illness diagnosis and haveexperienced functional limitations due to emotional disturbance,including experiencing a school shooting or the loss of a loved onein a school setting, over the past 12 months on a continuous or intermittentbasis. Under the bill, "therapeutic day treatment services" are treatmentprograms that combine psychotherapeutic interventions with education and mental health and may include evaluation; medication educationand management; opportunities to learn and use daily living skillsand to enhance social and interpersonal skills; and individual, group,and family counseling. The bill applies to plans delivered, issuedfor delivery, or renewed on and after January 1, 2025.
What moved
Who is involved
- Nadarius ClarkLead sponsor
- J.R. HensonCo-sponsor
- Katrina CallsenCo-sponsor
- Kelly FowlerCo-sponsor
- Marty MartinezCo-sponsor
- Patrick HopeCo-sponsor
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
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