Bill Text: MI SB0214 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health insurers; abortion coverage; require insurers and health maintenance organizations to offer through optional rider. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406t.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Referred To Committee On Insurance [SB0214 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0214-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 214

 

 

March 17, 2015, Introduced by Senators WARREN, HERTEL, GREGORY, ANANICH, JOHNSON, HOPGOOD, HOOD and BIEDA and referred to the Committee on Insurance.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled

 

"The insurance code of 1956,"

 

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

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3406t. As a condition of transacting business in this

 

state, an insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in

 

this state an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical group

 

or individual policy or certificate, or a health maintenance

 

organization that offers a group or individual contract, shall

 

offer coverage for elective abortion by an optional rider for which

 

an additional premium is paid by the purchaser.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act applies to policies,

 

certificates, and contracts delivered, executed, issued, amended,

 

adjusted, or renewed in this state, or outside of this state if

 

covering residents of this state, beginning on the date this

 

amendatory act is enacted into law.