Bill Text: CA SB1283 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health care coverage: grievance system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-09-30 - In Senate. To unfinished business. (Veto) [SB1283 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1283-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1283	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1283, as introduced, Steinberg. Health care coverage: autism.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. A willful violation
of the act constitutes a crime. Existing law provides for the
regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
Existing law requires health care service plan contracts and health
insurance policies to provide coverage for the diagnosis and
medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses, including,
but not limited to, pervasive developmental disorder or autism, under
the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions,
as specified.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to provide clarification on the duties imposed upon
health care service plans and health insurers, under the existing
mental health parity law, to provide medically necessary services for
the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to provide clarification on the duties imposed upon
health care service plans and health insurers, under the existing
mental health parity law, to provide medically necessary services for
the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.