Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on April 18, 2006. The 2006 session has ended.
2006 Regular Session
Senate Bill 579
AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MEDICAL SERVICES AND TREATMENT FOR MORBID OBESITY.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To require individual and group health insurance policies to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses associated with the diagnosis and treatment of morbid obesity, including, bariatric surgery and associated physician office visits, health and behavior assessments, nutrition education, patient self-management education and training and therapeutic exercises.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
March 3 to April 18, 2006, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action12 actions on 8 days
In the SenateMar 3 to Apr 18 · stopped46 days
Public Health CommitteeMar 3 to Mar 1714 days
Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeApr 11 to Apr 18 · stopped7 days
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Mar 3 – Apr 11
- Mar 3Introduced and sent to Public Health Committee
- Mar 9Heard in Public Health Committee
- Mar 17Public Health Committee recommended a substitute for it
- Apr 11Sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 12 actions, as published
- Mar 3REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Mar 9PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
- Mar 17Joint Favorable SubstituteBoth houses
- Mar 20FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
- Mar 28REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
- Apr 4RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
- Apr 4FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.Senate
- Apr 4SENATE CALENDAR NUMBERSenate
- Apr 4FILE NO.Both houses
- Apr 11REF. BY SEN. TO COMM. ONSenate
- Apr 11IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO COMMITTEESenate
- Apr 18Vote to Hold until next meetingBoth houses