Bill Text: GA HB1166 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Insurance; individual health insurance coverage to children through child-only health plans; provide

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-01-01 - Effective Date [HB1166 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB1166-Amended.html

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12 AM 28 1157

NOT GERMANE
Senators Hill of the 32nd, McKoon of the 29th and Loudermilk of the 52nd offered the following amendment:

Amend HB 1166 (LC 29 5196ERS) by inserting after "so as" on line 1 "to provide for certain health reimbursement only arrangements;" and by redesignating Sections 2 and 3 as Sections 3 and 4, respectively, and inserting after line 163 the following:

SECTION 2.

Said title is further amended by revising Code Section 33-51-7, relating to health reimbursement arrangement only plans, as follows:

"33-51-7.

(a) The Commissioner shall be authorized to allow health reimbursement arrangement only plans that encourage employer financial support of health insurance or health related expenses recognized under the rules of the federal Internal Revenue Service to be approved for sale in connection with or packaged with individual health insurance policies otherwise approved by the Commissioner.

(b) Health reimbursement arrangement only plans that are not sold in connection with or packaged with individual health insurance policies shall not be considered insurance under this title.

(c) Individual insurance policies offered or funded through health reimbursement arrangements shall not be considered employer sponsored or group coverage for purposes of this title, and nothing in this Code section shall be interpreted to require an insurer to offer an individual health insurance policy for sale in connection with or packaged with a health reimbursement arrangement or to accept premiums from health reimbursement arrangement plans for individual health insurance policies.

(d) Employer actions to accommodate the collection, packaging, or submission of funds from health reimbursement only arrangements, sometimes referred to as list billing, for the purchase of individual policies shall not constitute the establishment of a group plan."