Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: requiring hospitals to provide plain-language, itemized billing.
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 requires hospitals to provide each hospital patient with a
plain-language, itemized bill that includes an explanation of all charges, regardless
of the source of payment.
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Crowley, Berceau, Zamarripa, Sargent, Subeck, Brostoff and Pope; cosponsored by Senators Vinehout, Risser and Larson
- Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health
- Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1