Elaine Alquist
- Democratic
Author
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and disability insurers, and their employees or agents, when presenting a plan contract or policy for examination or sale to an individual purchaser or to the representative of a group consisting of 25 or fewer individuals, to make a written disclosure of the ratio of premium costs to health services paid, in the case of health care service plans, or of incurred claims to earned premiums, in the case of disability insurers, for the preceding year, as specified. This bill would instead require that this disclosure be made when presenting a plan contract or policy for examination or sale to an individual purchaser or to the representative of a group consisting of 50 or fewer individuals. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements with respect to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
From Assembly without further action.
From committee without further action.
To Com. on HEALTH.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 2735.) To Assembly.
Read second time. To third reading.
Read second time. Amended. To second reading.
From inactive file to second reading file.
Motion to reconsider made by Senator Alquist.
Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 17. Noes 20. Page 1196.)
Reconsideration granted.
(Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1196.)
Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Alquist.
Read second time. Amended. To third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 5. Page 1069.)
(Suspense - for vote only.)
Set for hearing May 28.
Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing April 20.
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 4. Page 642.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 1.
To Com. on HEALTH.
From print. May be acted upon on or after March 28.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB316 | HTML |
| 02/25/09 - Introduced | |
| 05/28/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 12/17/09 - Amended Senate |
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