Bill Title: Essential health benefits. Prohibits preexisting condition exclusions in individual and small group policies of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization contracts. Specifies benefits that must be included in individual and small group policies of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization contracts. Repeals provisions providing for preexisting condition exclusions in small group policies of accident and sickness insurance. Requires the legislative services agency to draft legislation for introduction in the 2020 session of the general assembly to make conforming changes to the Indiana Code.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-24 - First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance [HB1653 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Edward DeLaney [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-086	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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