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2023 SESSION
HB 2198 Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Bureau of Insurance to select a new plan.
Introduced by: Kathy J. Byron | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Health insurance; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Bureau of Insurance to select a new essential health benefits benchmark plan for the 2025 plan year that includes, in addition to the essential health benefits package included in the existing benchmark plan, coverage for prosthetic devices and components and formula and enteral nutrition products as medicine. The bill contains an emergency clause. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. This bill is identical to SB 1399.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/24 pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105975D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2198ER) pdf
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 01/11/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/24
- 01/11/23 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 01/31/23 House: Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105975D-H1
- 02/02/23 House: Read first time
- 02/03/23 House: Read second time
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23105975D-H1
- 02/03/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2198H1
- 02/06/23 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/13/23 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/23 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/16/23 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/16/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/16/23 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/23 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/23 House: VOTE: Adoption Emergency (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/23 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2198ER)
- 02/23/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/22/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 271 (effective - see bill)
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271)