Bill Text: CA SB951 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health care coverage: essential health benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 866, Statutes of 2012. [SB951 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB951-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 951	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        JANUARY 5, 2012

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 951, as introduced, Hernandez. Health care coverage: essential
health benefits.
   Commencing January 1, 2014, existing law, the federal Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), requires a health
insurance issuer that offers coverage in the small group or
individual market to ensure that such coverage includes the essential
health benefits package, as defined. Existing law provides for the
regulation of health care service plans and health insurers by the
Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance,
respectively, and requires health care service plans and health
insurers to cover various benefits.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would implement the essential health benefits as
established under specified provisions of 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 that would implement the essential health benefits as
established under Section 1302 of the federal Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148).