Bill Text: WV HB4080 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance Commissioner, health plan issuer internal grievance procedure

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-23 - To House Judiciary [HB4080 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2014-HB4080-Introduced.html

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H. B. 4080

 

         (By Delegates Poore, Marcum, Eldridge,

                   Fleischauer and Frich)

         [Introduced January 9, 2014; referred to the

         Committee on Banking and Insurance then the Judiciary.]

 

 

 

A BILL to amend and reenact article 7, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to a health plan insurer internal grievance procedure.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 7, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 7. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-7-1. Insurance Commissioner.

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 26, 2013, authorized under the authority of section four, article sixteen-h, chapter thirty-three of this code, modified by the Insurance Commissioner to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 1, 2013, relating to the Insurance Commissioner (health plan insurer internal grievance procedure, 114 CSR 96), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to a health plan insurer internal grievance procedure.

    This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.