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1999 SESSION
SB 1272 Accident and sickness insurance; access to specialists.
Introduced by: Mary Margaret Whipple | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Accident and sickness insurance; access to specialists. Requires each (i) insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, (ii) corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and (iii) health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services to allow covered individuals to designate a specialist as their primary care doctor.
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- 01/21/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 994697753
- 01/21/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/01/99 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendments (13-Y 2-N)
- 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