Bill Text: CA AB416 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 416 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Health care coverage.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB416 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB416-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 416	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1389.1 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 416, as introduced, Logue. Health care coverage.
   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 its provisions a crime.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a
provision of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1389.1 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1389.1.  (a) The director shall not approve any plan contract
unless the director finds that the application conforms to both of
the following requirements:
   (1) All applications for coverage  which  
that  include health-related questions shall contain clear and
unambiguous questions designed to ascertain the health condition or
history of the applicant.
   (2) The application questions related to an applicant's health
shall be based on medical information that is reasonable and
necessary for medical underwriting purposes. The application shall
include a prominently displayed notice that shall read:
   "California law prohibits an HIV test from being required or used
by health care service plans as a condition of obtaining coverage."
   (b) Nothing in this section  shall authorize 
 authorizes  the director to establish or require a single
or standard application form for application questions.