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2012 SESSION
HB 213 Mandated health insurance; benefits not applicable if exceed essential benefits package.
Introduced by: Jackson H. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an essential benefit that is required to be covered under a qualified health plan offered within a health benefit exchange established pursuant to the federal health reform law. The measure also provides that the entity operating a health benefit exchange for Virginia shall not condition its approval to the offering of a health plan within the health benefit exchange upon the plan's providing coverage for a state-mandated health benefit, to the extent that the state-mandated health benefit is not an essential benefit, that is required to be covered under a qualified health plan offered within the health benefit exchange.
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HISTORY
- 01/09/12 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101975D
- 01/09/12 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/19/12 House: Assigned C & L sub: #1
- 01/31/12 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
- 02/14/12 House: Left in Commerce and Labor (0-Y 0-N)