Connecticut Senate Bill 10

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-1)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-28 - Public Hearing 03/06
Pending: Joint Insurance and Real Estate Committee
Hearing: Mar 6 Insurance and Real Estate Public Hearing
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

To: (1) Establish (A) certain reporting requirements and enforcement provisions concerning compliance with mental health and substance use disorder benefit laws, and (B) the parity advancement account; (2) require health carriers to bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary; (3) establish certain prohibitions on the use of step therapy for prescription drugs; (4) require health carriers to include certain provisions in contracts with health care providers regarding reimbursement for certain covered health benefits; (5) establish certain requirements concerning stop loss insurance policies for health care or medical benefits under any self-funded employee health benefit plan; (6) establish certain health insurance rate filing requirements and require that the Insurance Commissioner adopt regulations concerning affordability in rate filing; (7) prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to make an adverse determination based on medical necessity; and (8) prohibit any individual or group health insurance policy from imposing (A) arbitrary time limits on reimbursement for general anesthesia services, or (B) unilateral arbitrary limitations on reimbursement for medically necessary ancillary services.

An Act Concerning Health Insurance And Patient Protection.

House Insurance and Real Estate Committee	Sen. Martin Looney [D]	Sen. Robert Duff [D]	Sen. Saud Anwar [D]
Sen. Jorge Cabrera [D]	Sen. Christine Cohen [D]	Sen. Mae Flexer [D]	Sen. Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox [D]
Sen. Herron Gaston [D]	Sen. Jan Hochadel [D]	Sen. Paul Honig [D]	Sen. Julie Kushner [D]
Sen. Matthew Lesser [D]	Sen. Rick Lopes [D]	Sen. Cici Maher [D]	Sen. James Maroney [D]
Sen. Martha Marx [D]	Sen. Douglas McCrory [D]	Sen. Patricia Miller [D]	Sen. Norman Needleman [D]
Sen. Catherine Osten [D]	Sen. MD Rahman [D]	Sen. Derek Slap [D]	Sen. Gary Winfield [D]
Rep. Joshua Elliott [D]

2025-01-21 - Joint - INS Vote Tally Sheet (Vote to Draft) (Y: 0 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-28	Senate	Public Hearing 03/06
2025-02-26	Senate	Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
2025-02-25	Senate	Drafted by Committee
2025-01-21	Senate	Vote to Draft
2025-01-08	Senate	Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB00010&which_year=2025
Text	https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-00010-R00-SB.PDF
Text	https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-00010-R01-SB.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TS/S/PDF/2025SB-00010-R00INS-CV3-TS.PDF