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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 365

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Relating to: prohibiting lifetime and annual limits under health insurance policies and plans. (FE)

Extraordinary session, 2018 — December Fair 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 health insurance policies and plans, known in the bill as

disability insurance policies, and self-insured governmental health plans from

imposing a lifetime limit or an annual limit on the dollar value of benefits.

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) , 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: Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 63, Noes 34

Passed 63–34 Jun 21, 2017 official source full page

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

Assembly: TABLE AMENDMENT

Failed 33–64 Jun 21, 2017 official source full page

Nay · 64

Not voting · 2

Assembly: SUSPEND RULES FOR THIRD READING

Passed 63–34 Jun 21, 2017 official source full page

Aye · 63

Not voting · 2

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 62–35 Jun 21, 2017 official source full page

Aye · 62

Not voting · 2

Assembly: Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Insurance, and take up Ayes 97, Noes 0

Passed 97–0 Jun 21, 2017 official source full page

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

Senate: Revived by the committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 93 (1), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Nov 30, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

Passed 18–15 Dec 4, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Withdrawn from committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Constitution and Federalism and taken up, Ayes 18, Noes 15

Passed 18–15 Dec 4, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: ADOPTION

Failed 16–17 Dec 4, 2018 official source full page

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Failed 16–17 Dec 4, 2018 official source full page

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. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules, Ayes 63, Noes 34

  6. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  7. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 62, Noes 35

  8. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  9. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Insurance, and take up Ayes 97, Noes 0

  10. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  11. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Petersen and Sanfelippo

  12. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Refused to table Assembly Substitute Amendment 1, Ayes 33, Noes 64

  13. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted, Ayes 63, Noes 34

  14. Jun 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Jun 22, 2017 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  16. Jun 23, 2017 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Insurance, Housing and Trade

  17. Jul 18, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  18. Jan 23, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Goyke withdrawn as a coauthor

  19. Jan 24, 2018 · Senate

    Representatives Anderson, Barca, Berceau, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Considine, Crowley, Doyle, Fields, Genrich, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kessler, Kolste, Meyers, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vruwink, Wachs, Young and Zamarripa withdrawn as coauthors

  20. Jan 26, 2018 · Senate

    Rereferred to committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Constitution and Federalism, by the Senate President, pursuant to Senate Rule 20(1)(c)

  21. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Erpenbach

  22. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  23. Nov 30, 2018 · Senate

    Revived by the committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 93 (1), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  24. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Feyen and Fitzgerald

  25. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Feyen and Fitzgerald

  26. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Senators Craig and Kapenga

  27. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Erpenbach, Shilling, Schachtner, Wirch, Miller, L. Taylor, Johnson, Vinehout, Carpenter, Larson, Frostman, Ringhand, Risser, Hansen and Bewley

  28. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Constitution and Federalism and taken up, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  29. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  30. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 withdrawn and returned to author

  31. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

  32. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  33. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Refused to adopt Senate Substitute Amendment 2, Ayes 16, Noes 17

  34. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table

  35. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  36. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  37. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Senators Bewley, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Hansen, Johnson, Larson, Miller, Ringhand, Risser, Shilling, L. Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch withdrawn as cosponsors

  38. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time

  39. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Refused concurrence, Ayes 16, Noes 17

  40. Dec 4, 2018 · Senate

    Action ordered immediately messaged