Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on February 1, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.
2019 Regular Session
Senate Bill 43
AN ACT PROHIBITING HEALTH CARRIERS FROM DENYING COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN COVERED BENEFITS PROVIDED IN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOMS.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To provide that no health carrier that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues a health insurance policy in this state shall deny coverage for a covered benefit provided to an insured in a hospital emergency room because the covered benefit could have been provided to the insured in another health care setting.
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
January 15 to February 1, 2019, 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 action3 actions on 3 days
In the SenateJan 15 to Feb 1 · stopped17 days
Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeJan 15 to Feb 1 · stopped17 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 Jan 15 – Feb 1
- Jan 15Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
- Feb 1Heard in Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 3 actions, as published
- Jan 15REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Jan 24Reserved for Subject Matter Public HearingBoth houses
- Feb 1PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses