Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on January 21, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5759
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CIVIL PENALTY FOR DELAYED PROCESSING OF HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIMS.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To require that the Insurance Department, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, establish a civil penalty of ten thousand dollars per violation, to be deposited in the Insurance Fund and allocated to the Office of the Healthcare Advocate, for any health insurance company that fails to (1) process any health insurance claim within five business days of receipt of such claim, or (2) if approved, reimburse the health care provider by mail within five business days of approval of such claim.
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
Sponsor
Its course
January 21 to January 21, 2025, 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 21 to Jan 21 · stopped0 days
Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeJan 21 to Jan 21 · 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 21
- Jan 21Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 1 actions, as published
- Jan 21REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses