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2001 SESSION
HB 2063 Health insurance; breast cancer as a preexisting condition.
Introduced by: Michele B. McQuigg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Health insurance; breast cancer as a preexisting condition. Prohibits (i) insurers proposing to issue group accident and sickness insurance policies or individual health insurance coverage providing hospital, medical and surgical, major medical or cancer-only coverage on an expense-incurred basis, and Medicare or similar plans; (ii) corporations providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and (iii) health maintenance organizations providing a health care plan for health care services from denying the issuance or renewal of, or cancelling, a policy, contract or plan, or including an exception or exclusion of benefits, for persons who have a high risk of breast cancer or who have had breast cancer but have been free of the disease for at least five years. Benefits shall be provided with durational limits, deductibles, coinsurance factors, and copayments that are no less favorable than for physical illness generally. Such carriers shall not consider routine follow-up care after a person has been determined cancer-free for purposes of determining a preexisting condition unless laboratory evidence of breast cancer is found during or as a result of the follow-up care.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 014552844 pdf | impact statement
- 01/23/01 House: Committee substitute printed 010058844-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/01 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2063ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/19/01 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 014552844
- 01/10/01 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 01/17/01 House: Assigned to C. I. B. sub-committee: 3
- 01/23/01 House: Committee substitute printed 010058844-H1
- 01/23/01 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/sub (25-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/01 House: Read first time
- 01/25/01 House: Read second time
- 01/25/01 House: Committee substitute agreed to 010058844-H1
- 01/25/01 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute 010058844-H1
- 01/26/01 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/01 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/01 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/29/01 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/29/01 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/12/01 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/13/01 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/01 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/01 Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/01 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/14/01 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/14/01 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/14/01 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/01 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/01 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/16/01 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/01 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/01 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2063ER)
- 02/23/01 House: Enrolled
- 02/26/01 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/26/01 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/14/01 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 242 (effective 7/1/01)
- 03/19/01 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242)