Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on January 22, 2021. The 2021 session has ended.
2021 Regular Session
Senate Bill 202
AN ACT CONCERNING STEP THERAPY, ADVERSE DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEWS, AND REQUIRED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CHILDREN, STEPCHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDENT CHILDREN.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To: (1) Prohibit health carriers from requiring the use of step therapy for drugs prescribed to treat disabling, chronic or life-threatening diseases or conditions; (2) require that health carriers bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary; (3) redefine "clinical peer" for the purposes of adverse determination and utilization reviews; (4) require health carriers to provide certain clinical peers with the authority to reverse initial adverse determinations; and (5) allow children, stepchildren and other dependent children to retain health insurance coverage under their parents' insurance policies until the end of the policy year during which they attain the age of twenty-six.
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 22 to January 22, 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 SenateJan 22 to Jan 22 · stopped0 days
Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeJan 22 to Jan 22 · 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 Senate Jan 22
- Jan 22Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 1 actions, as published
- Jan 22REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses