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1998 SESSION
HB 542 Health insurance; minimum stay for breast cancer surgery.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Accident and sickness insurance; minimum hospital stays for patients following mastectomy and for lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Requires the state employee health insurance plan, the Virginia Medicaid plan, and health insurers, health maintenance organizations and corporations providing accident and sickness subscription contracts to provide coverage for at least a 48-hour hospital stay following a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than 24 hours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or a partial mastectomy with lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Notwithstanding these requirements, the attending physician and the patient can determine that a shorter stay in the hospital is appropriate. The bill's provisions are applicable to policies, plans, and contracts delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after July 1, 1998. They are not applicable to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease policies, Medicare or other state or federal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than six months' duration.
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/98 House: Presented & ordered printed 985533264 pdf
- 02/05/98 House: Printed as engrossed 985533264-E pdf
- 03/25/98 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB542ER) pdf
- 04/27/98 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/20/98 House: Presented & ordered printed 985533264
- 01/20/98 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 01/22/98 House: Assigned to C. I. B. sub-committee: 3
- 02/03/98 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/amd. (24-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/98 House: Read first time
- 02/05/98 House: Read second time
- 02/05/98 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/05/98 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/05/98 House: Printed as engrossed 985533264-E
- 02/06/98 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/98 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/98 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/98 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/98 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/25/98 Senate: Pursuant to S.Rule 20(j),rereferred by Fin. (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/98 Senate: Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
- 03/02/98 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/98 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/98 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/98 Senate: Read third time
- 03/04/98 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 03/04/98 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 03/04/98 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/05/98 Senate: Read third time
- 03/05/98 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/06/98 Senate: Read third time
- 03/06/98 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 03/06/98 Senate: Amendments by Sen. Woods agreed to
- 03/06/98 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/06/98 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/98 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/98 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/10/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/11/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/12/98 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/12/98 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/25/98 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB542ER)
- 03/31/98 House: Enrolled
- 03/31/98 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/02/98 House: Signed by Speaker
- 04/15/98 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 631 (effective 7/1/98)
- 04/27/98 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631)