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2012 SESSION
SB 518 Mandated health insurance; not applicable if exceed essential benefits package.
Introduced by: Frank W. Wagner | 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
- 01/11/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101460D
- 01/11/12 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/20/12 Senate: Assigned C&L sub: Health Insurance
- 02/13/12 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N)