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CA AB2159

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/10/2020

Primary Sponsor

Jim Wood

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Origin

State Assembly

2019-2020 Session

AI Summary

  • Repeals existing California Insurance Code Section 10112.1 that tied health insurance lifetime and annual benefit limits to federal law requirements only.

  • Establishes a new state law prohibition on individual and group health insurance policies from imposing lifetime limits on the dollar value of benefits for an insured.

  • Establishes a new state law prohibition on individual and group health insurance policies from imposing annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for an insured.

  • Permits group health insurance policies to place annual or lifetime per-insured limits on specific covered benefits that are not essential health benefits, to the extent allowed under federal or state law.

Legislative Description

Health care coverage.

Last Action

In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

3/17/2020

Committee Referrals

Health2/20/2020

Full Bill Text

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