Bill Text: GA SB471 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Insurance; authorize Insurance Commissioner to establish coalition of other states; alternative policy approval process for comprehensive major medical policies
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-13 - House Second Readers [SB471 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB471-Amended.html
Bill Title: Insurance; authorize Insurance Commissioner to establish coalition of other states; alternative policy approval process for comprehensive major medical policies
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-13 - House Second Readers [SB471 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB471-Amended.html
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WITHDRAWN
Senators Fort of the 39th and Stoner of the 6th offered the following amendment:
Senators Fort of the 39th and Stoner of the 6th offered the following amendment:
Amend
SB 471 (LC 28 6094ER) by inserting after
"provide" on line 2
the
following:
that each individual accident and sickness policy sold pursuant to this article shall provide coverage for treatment of dependent children with cancer and provide coverage for autism; to provide
that each individual accident and sickness policy sold pursuant to this article shall provide coverage for treatment of dependent children with cancer and provide coverage for autism; to provide
By
deleting line 13 and inserting in lieu thereof the
following:
health insurance coverage, is amended by revising Code Section 33-29A-32, relating to the Commissioner to authorize insurers to offer individual accident and sickness insurance policies in Georgia that have been approved for issuance in other states, as follows:
health insurance coverage, is amended by revising Code Section 33-29A-32, relating to the Commissioner to authorize insurers to offer individual accident and sickness insurance policies in Georgia that have been approved for issuance in other states, as follows:
"33-29A-32.
The
Commissioner shall approve for sale in Georgia any individual accident and
sickness insurance policy that is currently approved for issuance in another
state where the insurer or the insurer's affiliate or subsidiary is authorized
to transact insurance so long as the insurer or the insurer's affiliate or
subsidiary filing and
issuance
issuing
such policy in Georgia is also authorized to transact insurance in this state
pursuant to Chapter 3 of this title and provided that any such policy meets the
requirements set forth in this article. Additionally, any insurer authorized to
transact insurance in this state
can
may
offer an individual accident and sickness insurance policy with benefits
equivalent to those in any policy approved for sale in Georgia under this
article, provided that any such offered policy meets the requirements set forth
in this article.
Further, any
insurer authorized to transact insurance in this state may offer an individual
accident and sickness insurance policy, provided that all such policies shall
include mandated coverage for treatment of dependent children with cancer
pursuant to Code Section 33-24-59.1 and provide coverage for autism pursuant to
Code Section
33-24-59.10."
SECTION
1.1.
Said
chapter is further amended by adding a new article to read as follows:
