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H.B. 105 Enrolled

                 

HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATES PROGRAM

                 
2002 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Rebecca D. Lockhart

                  This act relates to Health Insurance. The act modifies the Insurance Code and the Utah
                  State Retirement Act to require health coverage offered to the state employees' risk pool to
                  adopt health insurance mandates proposed for other accident and health insurance plans.
                  The act takes effect on July 1, 2002. The act provides a coordination clause.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  ENACTS:
                      31A-22-605.5, Utah Code Annotated 1953
                      49-8-406, Utah Code Annotated 1953
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 31A-22-605.5 is enacted to read:
                      31A-22-605.5. Application.
                      (1) For purposes of this section "insurance mandate":
                      (a) means a mandatory obligation with respect to coverage, benefits, or the number or
                  types of providers imposed on policies of accident and health insurance; and
                      (b) does not mean an administrative rule imposing a mandatory obligation with respect to
                  coverage, benefits, or providers unless that mandatory obligation was specifically imposed on
                  policies of accident and health insurance by statute.
                      (2) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection 31A-1-103 (3)(f), any law imposed
                  under this title that becomes effective after January 1, 2002, which provides for an insurance
                  mandate for policies of accident and health insurance shall also apply to health coverage offered
                  to the state employees' risk pool under Section 49-8-201 .
                      (b) If health coverage offered to the state employees' risk pool under Section 49-8-201
                  offers coverage in the same manner and to the same extent as the coverage required by the
                  insurance mandate imposed under this title or coverage that is greater than the insurance mandate
                  imposed under this title, the coverage offered to state employees under Section 49-8-201 will be


                  considered in compliance with the insurance mandate.
                      (c) The program regulated under Section 49-8-201 shall report to the Quasi-Governmental
                  Entities Interim Committee by November 30 of each year in which a mandate is imposed under the
                  provisions of this section. The report shall include the costs and benefits of the particular mandatory
                  obligation.
                      Section 2. Section 49-8-406 is enacted to read:
                      49-8-406. Insurance mandates.
                      Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection 31A-1-103 (3)(f), health coverage offered to
                  the state employee risk pool under Section 49-8-201 shall comply with the provisions of Section
                  31A-22-605.5 .
                      Section 3. Effective date.
                      This act takes effect on July 1, 2002.
                      Section 4. Coordination clause.
                      If this bill and H.B. 250, Retirement Law Recodification, both pass, it is the intent of the
                  Legislature that:
                      (1) the provisions of the coordination clause in this bill supersede the provisions of the
                  coordination clause in H.B. 250 with respect to this bill; and
                      (2) the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel shall make the following
                  changes in preparing the database for publication:
                      (a) references in H.B. 105 to "Section 49-8-201 " shall be changed to "Subsection
                  49-20-202 (1)(a)"; and
                      (b) Section " 49-8-406 " in this bill be renumbered to " 49-20-407 ".

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