85R10717 SMT-D     By: Bonnen of Galveston H.B. No. 3102       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to a prior authorization requirement for certain   prescription eye drops and related medications.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 1369, Insurance Code, is   amended by adding Section 1369.006 to read as follows:          Sec. 1369.006.  PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN PRESCRIPTION   DRUGS PROHIBITED. A health benefit plan that covers prescription   eye drops or other topical medications used to treat a disease or   condition of the eye or adnexa may not require that an enrollee   receive prior authorization for the eye drops or other topical   medications.          SECTION 2.  Section 1369.006, Insurance Code, as added by   this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan delivered, issued   for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2018. A health   benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before   January 1, 2018, is governed by the law as it existed immediately   before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in   effect for that purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.