Bill Text: OR HB3445 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to health benefits provided by public employers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3445 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB3445-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 3364

                         House Bill 3445

Sponsored by Representative SHEEHAN

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires health benefit plans and health benefit coverage
provided by public employers to include certain minimum
deductibles. Limits deductibles required on or after January 2,
2014, to amounts allowable under federal health care law.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to health benefits provided by public employers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) As used in this section, 'public employer '
has the meaning given that term in ORS 243.650.
  (2) A public employer may only contract for a health benefit
plan or otherwise provide health benefit coverage for employees
of the public employer if the health benefit plan or other health
benefit coverage requires payment of an annual deductible of at
least $250 for individual coverage or $500 for family
coverage. + }
  SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2011 Act is amended to read:
   { +  Sec. 1. + } (1) As used in this section, 'public
employer' has the meaning given that term in ORS 243.650.
  (2)  { + To the extent permitted by the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, as amended by the Health Care
and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, P.L. 111-152, + } a
public employer may only contract for a health benefit plan or
otherwise provide health benefit coverage for employees of the
public employer if the health benefit plan or other health
benefit coverage requires payment of an annual deductible of at
least $250 for individual coverage or $500 for family coverage.
  SECTION 3.  { + Section 1 of this 2011 Act applies only to
contracts for health benefit plans entered into or other health
benefit coverage provided on or after the effective date of this
2011 Act. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + The amendments to section 1 of this 2011 Act by
section 2 of this 2011 Act become operative January 2, 2014. + }
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