Bill Text: MI HB5162 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health; Pap smears; require to be covered in certain cases. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406s.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-09 - Referred To Second Reading [HB5162 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5162-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5162

 

June 25, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Liss, Warren, Bledsoe, Smith, Valentine, Byrnes, Haase, Miller, Donigan, Roberts, Slavens, Lipton, Hammel, Barnett, Kennedy, Lisa Brown, Bauer, Robert Jones, Geiss, Gonzales, Haugh, Neumann, Coulouris and Meadows and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled

 

"The insurance code of 1956,"

 

(MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406s.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3406s. (1) An expense-incurred hospital, medical, or

 

surgical policy or certificate delivered, issued for delivery, or

 

renewed in this state that provides gynecological coverage and a

 

health maintenance organization group or individual contract that

 

provides gynecological coverage shall include coverage for an

 

annual Pap smear screening.

 

     (2) Coverage under subsection (1) shall not be subject to any

 

dollar limit, copayment, deductible, or coinsurance provision that

 

does not apply to screening coverage generally.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2010.