Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

SB 483

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prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances.

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Senate, not reached
Passes Assembly, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits health insurance policies and governmental self-insured

health plans that cover medical expenses incurred as a result of an injury from using

an insured's alcohol consumption or use of a controlled substance as a basis to deny

or exclude coverage. The health insurance policy or governmental self-insured

health plan may subject the coverage of these injuries to any cost-sharing provisions,

limitations, or other exclusions that apply generally under the policy or plan.

The prohibition against denying coverage applies to individual and group

health insurance policies, including limited service health organizations, preferred

provider plans, defined network plans, and cooperative sickness care associations;

to health care plans, including a self-insured plan, offered by the state to its

employees; and to self-insured health plans of a city, town, village, county, or school

district.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by committee on Health, Health Insurance, Privacy, Property Tax Relief, and Revenue, Ayes 4, Noes 3

Passed 4–3 Mar 3, 2010 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0

Passed 32–0 Mar 4, 2010 official source full page