SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2013 SESSION
HB 1784 Accident and sickness insurance; individual open enrollment program.
Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Individual accident and sickness insurance; open enrollment program. Repeals the requirement that a health insurer that is, or is successor to, a health services plan provide an open enrollment program for individual accident and sickness contracts. Under the open enrollment program, an individual may purchase a product at any time during the year, with the caveat that the individual serve a 12-month waiting period before services are covered for any preexisting condition. The requirement for such an open enrollment program is inconsistent with guaranteed issue provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that prohibit waiting periods for coverage for preexisting conditions and that provide for limited open enrollment periods. The measure also eliminates certain provisions that set a tax rate of 0.75 percent on premiums from policies sold under the open enrollment program, and for taxable years 2013 and thereafter the tax rate will be 2.25 percent. The measure will become effective January 1, 2014. This bill is identical to SB 780.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103204D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/13 House: Printed as engrossed 13103204D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/18/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1784ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/12/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103204D
- 01/08/13 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/24/13 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/13 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/25/13 House: Assigned App. sub: General Government
- 01/29/13 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/13 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/13 House: Read first time
- 02/04/13 House: Read second time
- 02/04/13 House: Committee on Commerce and Labor amendment agreed to
- 02/04/13 House: Committee on Appropriations amendment agreed to
- 02/04/13 House: Committee on Commerce and Labor amendment reconsidered
- 02/04/13 House: Committee on Commerce and Labor amendment rejected
- 02/04/13 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1784E
- 02/04/13 House: Printed as engrossed 13103204D-E
- 02/05/13 House: Read third time and passed House (94-Y 4-N)
- 02/05/13 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 4-N)
- 02/06/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/13 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/08/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/13 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/11/13 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/13 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/12/13 Senate: Reported from Finance (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/13 Senate: Read third time
- 02/13/13 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
- 02/18/13 House: Enrolled
- 02/18/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1784ER)
- 02/18/13 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/19/13 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/13 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 210 (effective 1/1/14)
- 03/12/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210)