Relating to immunity from liability to uninsured motorists [HB-3076]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain uninsured motorists from recovering noneconomic damages from an insured motorist. The bill provides exceptions and defines terms.
HB-3076: Relating to immunity from liability to uninsured motorists
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Westfall
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
State employee health insurance plan; coverage for vision therapy. [HB-1872]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
State employee health insurance plan; coverage for vision therapy. Requires the state employee health insurance plan to include coverage for vision therapy, defined in the bill as orthoptic or pleoptic training when medically necessary to diagnose, correct, or manage a vision disorder or dysfunction that results from traumatic brain injury, brain surgery, or stroke.
HB-1872: State employee health insurance plan; coverage for vision therapy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brenda L. Pogge
Left In Appropriations on 02/08/2017
Relating to labor; employer’s bond for wages [HB-2957]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Gaming ]
[Taxes ]
The purpose of this bill is to amend the procedure by which a charitable gaming licensee may appeal the Tax Commissioner’s sanctions against the licensee for violations of the charitable gaming laws, by allowing the licensee to petition the Office of Tax Appeals for an administrative hearing rather than the Tax Commissioner.
HB-2957: Relating to labor; employer’s bond for wages
Sponsored by: Rep. Ron Walters
Filed For Introduction on 03/13/2017
You have voted HB-2942: Prohibiting insurers from cancelling or failing to renew insurance policies do to the mere filing of a claim that was later denied.
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Decedent's life insurance policy; funeral service provider allowed to request, etc. [HB-1835]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
Information about a decedent's life insurance policy. Allows a funeral service provider to request, and allows a life insurer to provide, information about a deceased person's life insurance policy, including the name and contact information of any beneficiaries of record. The measure does not require a life insurer to provide information that is confidential or protected. The bill requires a funeral service provider to whom such information is provided to make all reasonable efforts to contact all beneficiaries of record, if the beneficiary is
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HB-1835: Decedent's life insurance policy; funeral service provider allowed to request, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert D. Orrock
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 482 (effective 7/1/17) on 03/13/2017
HB-1169: Repeal, revise, and enact certain standards and other provisions relating to managed health care plans if the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jenna Netherton
Withdrawn At The Request Of The Prime Sponsor H.j. 343 on 02/08/2017
You have voted HB-1169: Repeal, revise, and enact certain standards and other provisions relating to managed health care plans if the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed..
Health insurance; assignment of benefits. [HB-1813]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Health insurance; assignment of benefits. Prohibits insurers issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, corporations providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, health maintenance organizations providing health care plans for health care services, and dental services plans offering or administering prepaid dental services from refusing to accept assignments of benefits executed by covered individuals
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HB-1813: Health insurance; assignment of benefits.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Leftwich
Left In Commerce And Labor on 02/08/2017
HB-2871: Eliminating the mandated employer versus employee cost share of eighty percent employer, twenty percent employee for Public Employee Insurance Agency
Sponsored by: Rep. Gary Martin Gearheart
On 2nd Reading, House Calendar on 04/08/2017
You have voted HB-2871: Eliminating the mandated employer versus employee cost share of eighty percent employer, twenty percent employee for Public Employee Insurance Agency.