HB1640
Health carriers; services provided by nurse practitioners.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Health carriers; nurse practitioners.
Requires health insurers and health services plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by licensed nurse practitioners to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed nurse practitioner. The bill contains an enactment that exempts the measure from the requirement that ... (More) the Health Insurance Reform Commission review any legislative measure containing a mandated health insurance benefit or provider. The bill has a delayed effective date of October 1, 2019. (Less)-
Bill History
- 11/26/2018 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100868D
- 11/26/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/14/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1640)
- 01/31/2019 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/31/2019 - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (19-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2019 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2019 - House: Read second time
- 02/04/2019 - House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/04/2019 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1640E
- 02/04/2019 - House: Printed as engrossed 19100868D-E
- 02/05/2019 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1640E)
- 02/05/2019 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/11/2019 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2019 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/2019 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2019 - House: Enrolled
- 02/19/2019 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1640ER)
- 02/19/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1640ER)
- 02/19/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/21/2019 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- 02/21/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/12/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 332 (effective 10/1/19)
- 03/12/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332)
