SB 1353 – Virginia
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations: Replaces references to “bona fide association,” as used in provisions applicable to health care plans in the small employer market, with the term “sponsoring association.” The measure defines …
SB 1473 – California
Introduced: 2022 Status: Enacted
California Health Benefit Exchange. Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health benefit plans …
SB 1674 – Virginia
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Health insurance; short-term, limited-duration health plans, renewal guarantees: Provides that any carrier offering short-term, limited-duration health plans may offer for sale a guaranteed option, defined in the bill as a contract or agreement between a …
SB 175 – California
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Healthcare coverage: minimum essential coverage – This bill would create the Minimum Essential Coverage Individual Mandate to require a California resident to ensure that the resident, and any dependent of the resident, is covered under …
SB 2026 – Illinois
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
CMS-DHFS-ACA PROTECTIONS. Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Prohibits the State from applying for any federal waiver that would reduce or eliminate any protection or coverage required under the Patient Protection and …
SB 219 – Louisiana
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Requires health insurance policies to adhere to certain standards. To enact Subpart I-1 of Part III of Chapter 4 of Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised of R.S. 22:1195 …
SB 2340 (see companion bill HB 2126) – Hawaii
Introduced: 2018 Status: Enacted
RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE: Ensures certain benefits under the federal Affordable Care Act are preserved under Hawaii law, including: extending dependent coverage for adult children up to 26 years of age; prohibiting health insurance entities …
SB 239 (see companion bill HB 258) – Maryland
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2019
Clarifying that certain provisions of law apply to managed care organizations; requiring a managed care organization to pay a certain fee in certain calendar years; altering the purpose of provisions of law requiring that certain …
SB 260 – California
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Automatic healthcare coverage enrollment – This bill would require the Exchange, beginning no later than July 1, 2021, to enroll an individual in the lowest cost silver plan or another plan, as specified, upon receiving …
SB 322 – Florida
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2019
PREEXISTING CONDITIONS: Defining the terms “operative date” and “preexisting medical condition” with respect to individual and group health insurance policies, respectively; requiring insurers, contingent upon the occurrence of either of two specified events, to make …
SB 403 (see companion bill HB 552) – Hawaii
Introduced: 2017 Status: Enacted
ESTABLISHES THE AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE WORKING GROUP: Preserves the ACA’s primary provisions, regardless of what happens on the federal level. Specifically, the bill calls for the preservation of the individual mandate; minimum essential benefit requirements; …
SB 418 – Florida
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
ESSENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS UNDER HEALTH PLANS:Requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation to conduct a study evaluating this state’s current benchmark plan for essential health benefits under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) …
SB 65 – California
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
California Health Benefit Exchange: financial assistance – This bill would, until January 1, 2023, require the board of the Exchange to develop and prepare one or more reports to be issued at least quarterly and …
SB 78 – California
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Health Omnibus Bill: Individual Mandate, Insurance Subsidies for up to 600% of FPL, Changes in Actuarial Value, Managed Care Organization Tax, Drug Rebate Fund, Advisory Group on Medi-Cal Pharmacy Benefits, Value Based Payments – Among …
SB 802 (see companion bill HB 814) – Maryland
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Establishing the Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program to improve data collection on uninsured individuals and to maximize enrollment of eligible uninsured individuals in affordable insurance programs; requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish …
SB 868 – Maryland
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Health Insurance – Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission: Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to establish a workgroup to carry out the finding and declaration of the General Assembly …