Bill Text: MI HB5159 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health; coverage for infertility treatment; require if pregnancy-related benefits are provided. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406s.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-09 - Adverse Roll Call [HB5159 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5159-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5159

 

June 25, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Hammel, Bledsoe, Warren, Liss, Smith, Valentine, Byrnes, Lipton, Miller, Roberts, Slavens, Donigan, Barnett, Kennedy, Lisa Brown, Bauer, Robert Jones, Geiss, Gonzales, Haugh, Coulouris and Meadows and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled

 

"The insurance code of 1956,"

 

(MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406s.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3406s. (1) An expense-incurred hospital, medical, or

 

surgical policy or certificate delivered, issued for delivery, or

 

renewed in this state that provides pregnancy coverage and a health

 

maintenance organization group or individual contract that provides

 

pregnancy coverage shall include coverage for infertility

 

treatment.

 

     (2) Coverage under subsection (1) shall not be subject to any

 

dollar limit, copayment, deductible, or coinsurance provision that

 

does not apply to pregnancy coverage generally.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2010.