File Code: Insurance - Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 341
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Mizeur, Aumann, Barkley, Benson, Cane, Carr, Costa, Feldman,
Frick, Guzzone, Hecht, Hubbard, Krysiak, Lafferty, Manno, McHale, Montgomery,
Ramirez, Reznik, Robinson, Schuler, Tarrant, Taylor, and Rice
- Entitled:
-
Prosthetic Parity Act
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations to provide coverage for prosthetic devices,
components of prosthetic devices, and repairs to prosthetic devices;
prohibiting covered benefits from being subject to a specified
copayment or coinsurance requirement; prohibiting insurers, nonprofit
health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from
imposing a specified dollar maximum on specified coverage; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/18
- Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/25
- Third Reading Passed (125-10)
- 4/5
- Returned Passed
Senate Action
- 3/28
- First Reading Finance
- 3/31
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/7
- Favorable Report by Finance
- 4/5
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/6
- Third Reading Passed (45-2)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/7
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 244
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Heather R. Mizeur, District 20
- Delegate Susan L. M. Aumann, District 42
- Delegate Charles Barkley, District 39
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Alfred C. Carr, Jr., District 18
- Delegate Robert A. Costa, District 33B
- Delegate Brian J. Feldman, District 15
- Delegate C. William Frick, District 16
- Delegate Guy Guzzone, District 13
- Delegate Sue Hecht, District 3A
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Stephen W. Lafferty, District 42
- Delegate Roger P. Manno, District 19
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 46
- Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
- Delegate Victor R. Ramirez, District 47
- Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
- Delegate Craig L. Rice, District 15
- Delegate Barbara Robinson, District 40
- Delegate Todd Schuler, District 8
- Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
- Delegate Herman L. Taylor, Jr., District 14
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
- Prostheses
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-820 ,
15-844
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
House
- Number: 706380/01 Offered on: March 27, 2009 at:
12:20 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 25, 2009: Third Reading Passed (125-10)
Senate
- April 6, 2009: Third Reading Passed (45-2)