Bill Text: CA SB1364 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health care coverage: State Innovation Waiver.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1364 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1364-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1364	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Monning

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1364, as introduced, Monning. Health care coverage: State
Innovation Waiver.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers by
the Department of Insurance. Commencing January 1, 2014, the federal
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires every
individual to be covered under minimum essential coverage, as
specified, and requires every health insurance issuer issuing
individual or group health insurance coverage to accept every
employer and individual who applies for coverage. Existing federal
law authorizes states to seek a State Innovation Waiver of specified
requirements of that coverage so the state can pursue its own
legislative program that, among other things, provides its residents
coverage that is at least as comprehensive and at least as affordable
as the coverage that would have been provided under PPACA.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would create a competitive marketplace for health
care coverage consistent with the State Innovation Waiver
requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to increase the number of insured Californians, improve
health quality, lower costs, and reduce health disparities through an
innovative, competitive marketplace that empowers consumers to
choose the health plan and the providers that give them the best
value, consistent with Section 1332 of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) as amended by the federal
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law
111-152).