Bill Text: MI HB4143 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance; health; abortion coverage in policies offered through the state exchange; prohibit except through the purchase of optional rider. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3407c.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-27 - Printed Bill Filed 01/27/2011 [HB4143 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB4143-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4143
January 26, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Gilbert, Johnson, Muxlow, Horn, Tyler, MacGregor and Lund and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled
"The insurance code of 1956,"
(MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3407c.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3407c. (1) A qualified health plan offered through a
state exchange pursuant to the patient protection and affordable
care act, Public Law 111-148, and the health care and education
reconciliation act of 2010, Public Law 111-152, shall not provide
coverage for elective abortion. Nothing in this section shall be
construed to prohibit an individual, organization, or employer
participating in a qualified health plan offered through a state
exchange from purchasing optional supplemental coverage for
elective abortion outside of the exchange as provided in subsection
(2).
(2) An expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy
or certificate delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this
state and a health maintenance organization group or individual
contract offered outside of a state exchange shall not provide
coverage for elective abortions except by an optional rider for
which an additional premium has been paid by the purchaser.
(3) An employer may purchase an optional rider to provide
coverage for an elective abortion if all of the following are met:
(a) The cost of the rider is not factored into any premium
amount for which individual employees contribute a portion of the
premium paid either directly or through a payroll deduction.
(b) The employer provides notice to each employee that
elective abortion will be included as a rider to his or her health
coverage and that the coverage can be used by a minor or dependent
female without notice to the employee.
(4) This section does not require an insurer, health
maintenance organization, or employer to provide or offer to
provide an optional rider for elective abortion coverage.
(5) This section does not apply to benefits provided under
title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-5.
(6) This section does not create a right to abortion.
(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a
person shall not perform an abortion that is prohibited by law.
(8) This section applies to policies, certificates, or
contracts delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state
on and after the effective date of this section.
(9) As used in this section:
(a) "Elective abortion" means the intentional use of an
instrument, drug, or other substance or device to terminate a
woman's pregnancy for a purpose other than to increase the
probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the
child after live birth, or to remove a dead fetus. Elective
abortion does not include either of the following:
(i) The prescription of or use of a drug or device intended as
a contraceptive.
(ii) The intentional use of an instrument, drug, or other
substance or device by a physician to terminate a woman's pregnancy
if the woman's physical condition, in the physician's reasonable
medical judgment, necessitates the termination of the woman's
pregnancy to avert her death.
(b) "Qualified health plan" means that term as defined in
section 1301 of the patient protection and affordable care act,
Public Law 111-148.
(c) "Physician" means an individual licensed to engage in the
practice of allopathic medicine or the practice of osteopathic
medicine and surgery under article 15 of the public health code,
1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838.
