Texas Council on Autism & Pervasive Developmental Disorders ...

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SB882 - filed by Sen. Eddie Lucio. Lucio, FYI, also intro'd

SB208 that bars insurance companies from refusing to cover

autism/pdd; if the bill passes, they can't say " no " anymore. Betcha

the insurance lobby is gonna jump on that like a duck on a junebug if

it ever gets into committee hearings (it's been sitting in State

Affairs committee since Feb. 3rd).

Anyway, SB882 re-names the Interagency Council on Autism and requires

their advisory task force to accept input from people with autism,

thier families, and advocacy organizations, and to incorporate that

input in an annual report summarizing the task force's

recommendations.

The link to the text:

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