Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: limiting reporting of collections status for medical debt.
Consumer protection Debt and debtors Hospitals and health care facilities
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, 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 a health care provider, or a billing administrator or debt
collector on behalf of a health care provider, from reporting to a consumer reporting
agency a debt arising from services provided by a health care provider as being in
collections status unless the health care provider has provided a written statement
to the patient describing the unpaid amount and including the name and address of
the health care provider that provided the services, six months have passed from the
due date listed on the statement sent to the patient, and the patient does not dispute
the charges.
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Brostoff, Berceau, Zamarripa, Sargent, Subeck, Pope and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Vinehout, Risser and Larson
- Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs
- Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1