2006 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 737

File Code: Insurance - Health
Sponsored By:
Delegates Healey, Burns, Conroy, DeBoy, Donoghue, Krysiak, Minnick, and Sophocleus
Entitled:
Health Insurance - Individual Health Benefit Plans - Pregnancy Coverage

Synopsis:

Prohibiting specified health insurance carriers that offer individual health benefit plans from applying an exclusion of coverage for preexisting conditions to health care services furnished for pregnancy; and applying the Act.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/6
First Reading Health and Government Operations
2/8
Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
3/7
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
Senate Action
No Action

Sponsored by:

Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23A
Delegate Steven J. DeBoy, Sr., District 12A
Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 6
Delegate Theodore Sophocleus, District 32

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMOS; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS
PREGNANCY
WOMEN

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Insurance
( 15-1301 , 15-1304 )

Documents:

Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format): First Reading, Third Reading, Enrolled
Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format): Available
Amendments: None offered