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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 363

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: prohibiting preexisting condition exclusion and setting rates or cost sharing based on preexisting conditions. (FE)

Insurance — Health Insurance — Miscellaneous Public employee — Group insurance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits a group health benefit plan, including a self-insured

governmental health plan, from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion. The bill

also prohibits an individual health insurance policy, known in the bill as a disability

insurance policy, from reducing or denying a claim or loss incurred or disability

commencing under the policy on the ground that a disease or physical condition

existed prior to the effective date of coverage. The bill also prohibits a group or

individual health insurance policy or a self-insured governmental health plan from

considering whether an individual, including a dependent, who would be covered

under the plan has a preexisting condition for the purpose of setting any deductibles,

copayments, or coinsurance under the policy or plan.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Barca (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Crowley (D) , Doyle (D) , Fields (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Mason (D) , Meyers (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Riemer (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D) , Wachs (D) , Young (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

13 cosponsors

Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Miller (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Shilling (D) , Vinehout (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Insurance and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

Failed 34–59 Feb 22, 2018 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Jun 2, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Riemer, Kolste, C. Taylor, Anderson, Barca, Berceau, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Considine, Crowley, Doyle, Fields, Genrich, Goyke, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kessler, Mason, Meyers, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pope, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stuck, Subeck, Vruwink, Wachs, Young, Zamarripa and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Johnson, Shilling, Bewley, Carpenter, Hansen, Larson, Miller, Ringhand, Risser, L. Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch

  2. Jun 2, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Jun 13, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jun 15, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jul 13, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Insurance and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

  7. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1