THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2020

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

TIME:

9:30 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 3047

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Allows an advance directive to be a valid written request for a prescription to be self-administered for the purpose of ending an adult's life.  Includes advanced practice registered nurses under the definition of "attending provider".  Allows an attending provider to waive the counseling referral requirement.  Allows an attending provider to perform duties through telehealth, under certain conditions.  Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after December 31, 2020, to provide coverage for services related to ending a patient's life.

 

CPH, JDC

SB 2582

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority.  Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests from twenty days to fifteen days.  Waives the mandatory waiting period for those terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period.

 

CPH, JDC

SB 2284

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.

Prohibits a health care insurer, mutual benefit society, or health maintenance organization from requiring an insured, subscriber, member, or enrollee diagnosed with stage two through stage four cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for the drug prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions.

 

CPH, JDC

 

 

 

SB 2278

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Establishes disclosure and consent requirements for nonparticipating health care providers.  Prohibits nonparticipating health care providers from balance billing patients in specific circumstances.  Establishes rate calculation requirements for reimbursement of nonparticipating providers.

 

CPH, JDC

 

 

 

SB 2539

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for a comprehensive category of reproductive health services, drugs, devices, products, and procedures.  Prohibits discrimination in the provision of reproductive health care services.  Effective 3/15/2021.

 

CPH, JDC

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair