l9n/ Connecticut

2021 Regular Session

House Bill 5189

AN ACT CONCERNING REQUIRED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR BENEFITS RELATED TO BREAST CANCER.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on January 15, 2021. The 2021 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To: (1) Require health insurance coverage for diagnostic mammograms, ultrasound screenings and magnetic resonance imaging of breasts and breast biopsies for both women and men; (2) reduce the minimum age at which an individual or group health insurance policy is required to provide coverage for a baseline mammogram from thirty-five to thirty years of age; and (3) require health insurance coverage for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer in an individual who has been treated for a childhood cancer, and received radiation treatment that was directed at the individual's chest as part of the treatment for said childhood cancer, regardless of such individual's age.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

2 co-sponsors

Christine Palm, Ronald A. Napoli Jr.

Its course

January 15 to January 15, 2021, 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 action1 action on 1 day

In the House of RepresentativesJan 15 to Jan 15 · stopped0 days

Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeJan 15 to Jan 15 · stopped0 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 House of Representatives Jan 15

  1. Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 1 actions, as published