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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 1068

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Relating to: limiting reporting of collections status for medical debt.

Consumer protection Contractor Debt and debtors Hospitals and health care facilities

  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 prohibits a health care provider, or a billing administrator or debt

collector acting on behalf of a health care provider, from reporting to a consumer

reporting agency that a debt arising from services provided by the health care

provider is in collections status unless 1) the health care provider provided a written

statement to the patient describing the unpaid amount and including the name and

address of the health care provider that provided the services, 2) six months have

passed since the due date listed on that statement, and 3) the patient does not dispute

the charges.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Larson (D) , Spreitzer (D)

16 cosponsors

Clancy (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Myers (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 26, 2024 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives J. Anderson, Clancy, Drake, Emerson, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Myers, Ortiz-Velez, Ratcliff, Shankland, Shelton, Snodgrass, Stubbs and Subeck

  2. Feb 26, 2024 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1