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1999 SESSION

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SB 1271 Health care provider panels; continuity of care.

Introduced by: Benjamin J. Lambert III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Health care provider panels; continuity of care. Requires health insurance plans and health maintenance organizations to provide 90 days’ notice to enrollees prior to terminating providers, and to allow enrollees to continue using a terminated provider for 90 days. The bill also allows pregnant women to continue receiving treatment from a terminated provider through delivery, and the terminally ill to continue receiving treatment from such a provider until death.

FULL TEXT

• 01/21/99  Senate: Presented & ordered printed 994707753  pdf

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HISTORY

• 01/21/99  Senate: Presented & ordered printed 994707753
• 01/21/99  Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 02/01/99  Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 02/03/99  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/99  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/99  Senate: Read second time
• 02/04/99  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
• 02/04/99  Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
• 02/04/99  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/05/99  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/08/99  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/09/99  Senate: Passed by temporarily
• 02/09/99  Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (21-Y 19-N)
• 02/09/99  Senate: VOTE: (21-Y 19-N)
• 02/09/99  Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
• 02/09/99  Senate: Left in Education and Health