Bill Title: Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that a health care professional or health care provider shall not contact a collection agency to collect unpaid debt when a patient has a late payment or nonpayment of a medical bill for COVID-19 testing, nor shall the health care professional or health care provider report the late payment or nonpayment to a credit reporting agency. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-21 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [HB3703 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Sue Scherer [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-096	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Carol Ammons [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-103	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joyce Mason [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lance Yednock [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-076	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator John Curran [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-041	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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