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2024 SESSION
SB 499 Health insurance; coverage for donor human milk.
Introduced by: Jennifer D. Carroll Foy | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Donor human milk banks, health insurance; coverage for donor human milk; penalty; emergency. Prohibits any person from establishing or operating a donor human milk bank, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining a license from the State Health Commissioner and makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to establish or operate a donor human milk bank in the Commonwealth without obtaining such license. The bill directs the State Board of Health to establish a regulatory and statutory scheme for the licensure and regulation of donor human milk banks operating or doing business in the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Commissioner to implement and enforce numerous regulations relating to the issuance, renewal, denial, suspension, and revocation of such licenses. The bill specifies procedures relating to disciplinary actions, application fees, and inspections and interviews related to such donor human milk banks.
The bill requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for expenses incurred in the provision of pasteurized donor human milk. The bill specifies that the requirement applies if the covered person is an infant younger than the age of six months and a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for such infant who satisfies certain criteria enumerated in the bill. The bill applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. The bill also requires the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance services incurred in the provision of pasteurized donor human milk. The bill specifies that certain provisions will not become effective until the State Board promulgates regulations for the licensure of donor human milk banks and directs the State Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement certain provisions of the bill.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104909D pdf | impact statement
- 02/08/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106675D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24107422D-S2 pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104909D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/26/24 Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health
- 02/08/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/08/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106675D-S1
- 02/12/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24107422D-S2
- 02/13/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/13/24 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 24106675D-S1
- 02/13/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/13/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24107422D-S2
- 02/13/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB499S2
- 02/13/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/24 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/16/24 House: Read first time
- 02/16/24 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 02/19/24 House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/20/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/22/24 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/28/24 House: Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)