Bill Text: FL S0328 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance Coverage for At-home COVID-19 Test Kits
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-03-14 - Died in Banking and Insurance [S0328 Detail]
Download: Florida-2022-S0328-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2022 SB 328 By Senator Rodriguez 39-00546-22 2022328__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to insurance coverage for at-home 3 COVID-19 test kits; creating s. 627.42398, F.S.; 4 defining the term “at-home COVID-19 test kit”; 5 requiring health insurers and health maintenance 6 organizations to provide 100 percent coverage for at 7 home COVID-19 test kits; providing for expiration of 8 the insurance coverage; providing an effective date. 9 10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 11 12 Section 1. Section 627.42398, Florida Statutes, is created 13 to read: 14 627.42398 Coverage for at-home COVID-19 test kits.— 15 (1) As used in this section, the term “at-home COVID-19 16 test kit” means an over-the-counter diagnostic test kit that 17 serves to detect active COVID-19 infections and for which the 18 United States Food and Drug Administration has issued an 19 Emergency Use Authorization. The term includes: 20 (a) A COVID-19 self-collection kit, including, but not 21 limited to, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which 22 provides results after a sample is received by a lab. 23 (b) A COVID-19 self-test kit, including, but not limited 24 to, a rapid antigen test, which provides results in minutes. 25 (2) A health insurer or health maintenance organization 26 must provide 100 percent coverage for an at-home COVID-19 test 27 kit that is purchased with or without a prescription, to be used 28 at home or elsewhere. 29 (3) This section expires December 31, 2023. 30 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.