Tex. Insurance Code § 1214.002: EXCEPTION.

This chapter does not apply to:

(1) a health benefit plan that provides coverage:

(A) only for a specified disease;

(B) only for accidental death or dismemberment; or

(C) for wages or payments in lieu of wages for a period during which an employee is absent from work because of sickness or injury; or

(2) a long-term care insurance policy, including a nursing home fixed indemnity policy, unless the commissioner determines that the policy provides benefits so comprehensive that the policy is a health benefit plan as described by Section 1214.001.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 730 (H.B. 2636), Sec. 1G.001, eff. April 1, 2009.