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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 669

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Relating to: special enrollment period for pregnancy.

Insurance — Health Maternal and infant care Medical practice group Public employee — Group insurance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 requires health insurance plans and self-insured governmental

health plans to allow a pregnant individual who is eligible for coverage under the

plan, and any individual who is eligible for coverage because of a relationship to the

pregnant individual, to enroll in the plan at any time during the pregnancy. Under

the bill, the coverage must begin no later than the first day of the first calendar

month in which the pregnant individual receives medical verification of the

pregnancy, except that the pregnant individual may direct coverage to begin on the

first day of any month occurring during the pregnancy. The bill also requires that

insurers offering group health insurance coverage notify individuals of the special

enrollment period at or before the time the individual is initially offered the

opportunity to enroll in the plan.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Wirch (D)

26 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Baldeh (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Haywood (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hong (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D) , Vruwink (D)

Full history

  1. Nov 2, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Johnson, L. Taylor, Agard, Roys, Bewley, Erpenbach, Larson, Smith, Wirch and Carpenter; cosponsored by Representatives Stubbs, Hong, Cabrera, Baldeh, Anderson, Andraca, Bowen, Brostoff, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, B. Meyers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink

  2. Nov 2, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1