Bill Text: MI SB0156 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Insurance: health insurers; coverage for emergency refill of prescription medication of insulin for up to a 30-day supply; provide for. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406v. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0155'21
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-15 - Assigned Pa 0037'21 With Immediate Effect [SB0156 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-SB0156-Chaptered.html
Act No. 37
Public Acts of 2021
Approved by the Governor
July 1, 2021
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 1, 2021
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2021
state of michigan
101st Legislature
Regular session of 2021
Introduced by Senators Daley, Lauwers, Nesbitt, Theis, Horn and Bizon
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 156
AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker’s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,” (MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406v.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 3406v. Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, an insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall provide coverage for any emergency supply of insulin that is covered under an insured’s health insurance policy and that is dispensed to the insured by a pharmacist as provided in section 17744f of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17744f.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 155 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.
This act
is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
