File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 261  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Trotter, Madden,
 Hollinger, Munson, Dorman, Hafer, Teitelbaum, Young, and
 Roesser
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Health Benefit Plans - Minimum Inpatient Hospitalization Coverage -
 Treatments for Breast and Testicular Cancer
 
Requiring health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations to provide a minimum length of inpatient
hospitalization coverage of 48 hours after a mastectomy or the removal
of a testicle and 24 hours after a lymph node dissection or
lumpectomy, performed for the treatment of breast or testicular
cancer; specifying an exception; requiring specified coverage for home
visits; requiring specified information be provided prior to
performance of specified procedures; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/8
 - First Reading Finance
 - 1/13
 - Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 3/4
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/6
 - Third Reading Passed (43-0)
 
House Action
- 3/7
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 3/20
 - Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/1
 - Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Senator Decatur W. Trotter, District 24
 - Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
 - Senator John J. Hafer, District 1
 - Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
 - Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
 - Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
 - Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
 - Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
 - Senator Larry Young, District 44
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - DISEASES -see also- AIDS
 - HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
 - HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
 - HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
 - HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
 - NOTICES
 - PATIENTS
 - WOMEN
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Health - General
 - (
 19-706 ,
 19-706 ,
 20-116 
)
 -   Insurance
 - (
 15-822 
)
 - Article - 48A Insurance Code
 - (
 490KK 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 317246/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 4, 1997      at: 11:04
 Status: Adopted