Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: limiting emergency care hospital rates for uninsured patients.
Hospitals and health care facilities Insurance — Health Medical service
- 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 hospitals from charging uninsured patients whose family
income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line a rate for emergency
services that exceeds 115 percent of the allowable charges under the federal
Medicare program for those services. Under the bill, an uninsured patient is defined
as a hospital patient who is a resident of this state, is not covered under a policy of
health insurance, and is not a beneficiary under a public or private health insurance,
health benefit, or other health coverage program.
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 22, 2018 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Johnson, Vinehout and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Anderson, C. Taylor, Berceau, Zamarripa, Sargent, Subeck, Brostoff and Pope
- Mar 22, 2018 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Senate Organization
- Mar 22, 2018 · Senate
Available for scheduling
- Mar 28, 2018 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1