Bill Text: CA SB639 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health care coverage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 316, Statutes of 2013. [SB639 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB639-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 639	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 639, as introduced, Hernandez. Health care coverage: cost
sharing.
   Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacts various health care coverage
market reforms that take effect January 1, 2014. Among other things,
PPACA establishes annual limits on deductibles for employer-sponsored
plans and defines bronze, silver, gold, and platinum levels of
coverage for the nongrandfathered individual and small group markets.

   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 health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
   This bill would declare the intent of the legislature to enact
legislation that would address cost sharing as contemplated by the
PPACA.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to address cost sharing as contemplated by the federal
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.