| SB00319 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Insurance Commissioner to study reimbursement parity for podiatrists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| HB05383 | Intro
Sine Die | To require employers to disclose salary ranges for vacant positions and to provide comparable pay for comparable work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00338 | Intro
Sine Die | To adopt the Insurance Department's recommendations regarding credit for reinsurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05371 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide that insurers that are licensed to write homeowners or commercial property insurance in this state may provide coverage for the removal of trees that fall onto covered real property due to a natural disaster.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00340 | Intro
Sine Die | To restrict (1) the amount that a hospital or collection agent may recover from an uninsured or underinsured patient for the unpaid cost of health care, and (2) the manner in which a hospital or collection agent may secure or recover payment for such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05250 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit health insurance policies providing coverage for outpatient prescription drugs, and mental health care benefits provided under state law, with state funds or to state employees, from requiring a prescribing health care provider to prescri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00342 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Insurance Commissioner to promote the development of, and employment opportunities in, the insurance industry in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05364 | Intro
Sine Die | To alter the manner in which the General Assembly enacts new mandated health insurance benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05386 | Intro
Sine Die | To increase penalties for violating a stop work order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05388 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit discrimination on the basis of ethnic hairstyles historically associated with race, by adopting what is commonly referred to as the CROWN Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00339 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Amend certain captive insurance company definitions; (2) provide tax amnesty to an insured that establishes a branch captive insurance company in, or transfers domicile of its alien captive insurance company or foreign captive insurance compa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05501 | Intro
Sine Die | To combat the opioid epidemic in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Joint Public Health Committee |
| SB00329 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require the Insurance Commissioner to develop and disseminate a minimum set of affordable benefit options for individual and group long-term care policies; (2) provide that no insurance company, fraternal benefit society, hospital service cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05370 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Extend the sunset date for Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc.; and (2) require the Insurance Commissioner to study methods available to accelerate responses by insurers to claims under homeowners insurance policies for f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05274 | Intro
Sine Die | To allow Probate Court employees to be recognized as state employees for the purpose of collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00207 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) restrict how frequently the Insurance Commissioner may examine a surety bail bond agent's books and records, (2) automatically cancel a surety bail bond agent's license if the agent does not pay an annual examination fee, (3) reschedule an ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05018 | Intro
Sine Die | To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| HB05375 | Intro
Sine Die | To modify the preconditions to issuing a real estate broker's license in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00326 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health insurance coverage for medically necessary coronary calcium scan tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05365 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) modify reporting requirements, and impose a late filing fee and penalty, concerning the public health fee, (2) permit attorneys, actuaries, accountants and experts to perform certain duties currently performed by the Insurance Department's emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00174 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Department of Education to study education issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00335 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Redefine "clinical peer" for the purposes of adverse determination and utilization reviews; and (2) require health carriers to provide certain clinical peers with the authority to reverse initial adverse determinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00369 | Intro
Sine Die | To allow children, stepchildren and other dependent children to retain dental and vision insurance coverage under their parents' insurance policies until they attain the age of twenty-six or obtain substitute coverage through an employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05360 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide for the regulation and taxation of travel insurance, and associated entities, products and professionals, in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05368 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish a task force to study the use of breed of dog as an underwriting factor for homeowners insurance policies delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or endorsed in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00173 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Department of Education to develop a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of school district programs and policies that are intended to address disparities in academic achievement among racial and socio-economic lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| SB00088 | Intro
Sine Die | To require restaurants to include certain beverages on children's menus and in children's meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00352 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit municipal or special taxing district pension systems from diminishing or eliminating certain retiree's rights and benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00334 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Insurance Commissioner to study methods of enhancing data privacy for business associates and covered entities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05361 | Intro
Sine Die | To limit the circumstances in which a health carrier may remove a prescription drug from a drug formulary or list of covered drugs, or move a prescription drug to a different cost-sharing tier, during a plan year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00321 | Intro
Sine Die | To require that health carriers bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00341 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require health care professionals to notify covered persons and their authorized representatives of their right to submit additional information for consideration as part of a utilization review; and (2) provide covered persons, authorized re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00210 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) specify the manner in which certain insurers must cancel certain homeowners insurance policies, (2) require the Insurance Commissioner to disapprove certain credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance forms if the loss ratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00225 | Intro
Sine Die | To ensure per diem compensation equity for State Board of Mediation and Arbitration arbitrators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05043 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health insurance coverage for at least a twenty-minute consultation between a health care provider and a covered individual concerning the immunizations that are recommended for such individual by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
File Number 3 |
| SB00199 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health insurance coverage for specialized formulas for individuals twelve years of age and older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05270 | Intro
Sine Die | To protect the rights of public employees to join or support unions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| SB00351 | Intro
Sine Die | To make minor and technical changes to the Workers' Compensation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00324 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Modify mandatory health insurance benefits for ambulance services to (A) include medically necessary transportation to a covered person's place of residence, and (B) require that such benefits be provided at an in-network level; (2) provide f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable Substitute |
| HB05273 | Intro
Sine Die | To discourage employers from closing call centers in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00331 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish a task force to study the Insurance Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05044 | Intro
Sine Die | To protect the public health by ensuring adequate and appropriate immunizations of children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
File Number 4 |
| HB05271 | Intro
Sine Die | To specify certain parameters for a room or other location in the workplace that accommodates employee breastfeeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05373 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Modify both the permissible and required terms of home improvement contracts; (2) preclude home improvement contractors from engaging in certain conduct to induce owners to enter into home improvement contracts; (3) require home improvement c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05256 | Intro
Sine Die | To modify required health insurance coverage for detoxification and substance abuse services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00227 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit the practice of on-call shift scheduling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| HB05255 | Intro
Sine Die | To (1) prohibit certain insurers from discriminating against any individual solely because such individual is a living organ donor, and (2) provide that such discrimination constitutes a violation of the Connecticut Unfair Insurance Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00337 | Intro
Sine Die | To: (1) Require certain high deductible health plans to apply annual deductibles on a calendar year basis; (2) require certain health care providers to promptly refund excess cost-sharing payments for covered benefits; (3) require certain qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00320 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit health carriers from requiring the use of step therapy for drugs prescribed to treat disabling, chronic or life-threatening diseases or conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
| SB00209 | Intro
Sine Die | To require health care sharing ministries to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Joint Favorable |
