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HB1466

Health insurance; nondiscrimination, gender identity or transgender status.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Debra Rodman (D)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Health insurance; nondiscrimination; gender identity or transgender status.

Prohibits a health carrier from denying or limiting coverage or imposing additional cost sharing or other limitations or restrictions on coverage under a health benefit plan for health care services that are ordinarily or exclusively available to covered individuals of one sex to a transgender individual based on the fact that the individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender otherwise recorded is different from the one to which such health services are ordinarily or exclusively available. The measure also prohibits a health carrier from (i) subjecting an individual to discrimination under a health benefit plan on the basis of gender identity or being a transgender individual or (ii) requiring that an individual, as a condition of enrollment or continued enrollment under a health benefit plan, pay a premium that is greater than the premium for a similarly situated covered person enrolled in the plan on the basis of the covered person's gender identity or being a transgender individual. The measure requires health carriers to assess medical necessity according to nondiscriminatory criteria that are consistent with current medical standards. (Less)
  • Bill History

  • 01/17/2018 - House: Presented and ordered printed 18102741D
  • 01/17/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  • 01/23/2018 - House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2
  • 01/31/2018 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1466)
  • 02/06/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
  • 02/13/2018 - House: Left in Commerce and Labor