Virginia Senate Bill 518 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-11-30 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an essential benefit that is required to be covered under a qualified health plan offered within a health benefit exchange established pursuant to the federal health reform law. The measure also provides that the entity operating a health benefit exchange for Virginia shall not condition its approval to the offering of a health plan within the health benefit exchange upon the plan's providing coverage for a state-mandated health benefit, to the extent that the state-mandated health benefit is not an essential benefit, that is required to be covered under a qualified health plan offered within the health benefit exchange.

Mandated health insurance; not applicable if exceed essential benefits package.

Sen. Frank Wagner [R]

2012-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-11-30	Senate	Left in Commerce and Labor
2012-02-13	Senate	Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N)
2012-01-20	Senate	Assigned C&L sub: Health Insurance
2012-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2012-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101460D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3406.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB518
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB518+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S02C0060+SB0518