| RI | S2685 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prohibits an insurance carrier from assessing a premium surcharge against an insured for making an inquiry regarding the terms of their policy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | S2982 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES AND RESERVES - Replaces the term "the drug naloxone" with the term "opioid antagonist" in chapters regulating life insurance policies and group life insurance policies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | S3104 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Assures rental vehicle coverage under private auto policy, extends to the named insured and any drivers listed on the insured’s policy and requires that the insurer pay for a rental that is of like quality as the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04 [Hearing: Jun 6] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3105 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Expands the definition of "unfair claims practices". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04 [Hearing: Jun 6] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2440 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PARTS - Prohibits insurance companies from refusing to use after market parts that are greater than 48 months and less than 72 months from the date of manufacture, provided the repairer has written consent from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 Committee recommends passage as amended in concurrence |
| RI | S2389 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2875 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides insurance coverage for interpreter services for all medically necessary doctor appointments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2088 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2025, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S3043 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Provides for mandatory uninsured motorist coverage. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3042 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE -- MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION - Increases the minimum claim amount necessary to require a matter involving motor vehicle liability be submitted to mandatory arbitration. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3047 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE - Requires insurance coverage for at a minimum up to ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2401 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2611 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2610 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER COMPENSATION ACT - Expands health insurance commissioner's authority to set reimbursement rates for mental health services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2873 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- DENTAL INSURANCE LOSS RATIO REPORTING AND STUDY ACT - Requires dental health insurance carriers to file an actuarial memorandum disclosing its incurred claims/earned premiums, to assist the health insurance commissioner with respect to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2965 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Provides that dental services rendered to patients would be reimbursed by standards governed by the general laws of Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2946 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all insurance plans provide insurance coverage for diagnosing and treating infertility for women between the ages of 25 and 42 years including preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2812 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Enacts a chapter to regulate pet insurance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2403 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2392 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2715 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2070 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2085 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, per ear, every three years for all people regardless of age. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2069 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2626 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglyce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2798 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- PRODUCER LICENSING ACT - Amends provisions re insurance producer appointments and clarifies language re insurance claims adjusters. Amends the RI life & health guarantee assoc act. Adds insurance data security and pet insurance acts and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2802 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- EXAMINATIONS - Amends the statutory provisions regarding domestic and foreign insurers and insurer examinations to provide provisions with regard to cybersecurity events involving Rhode Island consumers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2176 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2724 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAIR SHARE FOR DENTAL CARE ACT - Requires carriers offering dental benefit plans to annually submit information which includes the current and projected medical loss ratio for cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2210 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Clarifies the definitions of unfair claims practices pertaining to insurers with regard to appraisals and total losses and corrects a citation regarding salvage and reconstructed titles. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2461 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Defines a "consumer accessible fair market value" for a vehicle valuation figure. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2682 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a "direction to pay" executed by an insured for payment of a property damage benefit constitutes an unfair claims practice. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2681 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a "direction to pay" executed by an insured for payment on a property damage benefit would constitute an unfair claims practice. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2620 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Protects and continues health insurance coverage for the dependent of an employee who wishes to change their health insurance coverage to Medicare or are currently on Medicare. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2180 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires each healthcare entity/network plan to compile/report to health insurance commissioner a summary of how the healthcare entity/network plan requires its contracted providers t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2395 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Ensures that independent pharmacies are protected from pharmacy benefit discrimination toward non-affiliated pharmacies and helps protect consumers' ability to choose local, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2385 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- THIRD-PARTY HEALTH INSURANCE ADMINISTRATORS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTROL AND TRANSPARENCY - Regulates pharmacy benefit managers' policies and practices through rules and regulations promulgated by the office of health insurance comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2612 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires that any insurance contract issued, amended or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, that provides hospital, medical or surgical coverage shall provide coverage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2267 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- COVID-19 PANDEMIC INSURANCE RECOVERY ACT - Allows businesses that had an insurance policy in place for business interruption as of March 9, 2020 to recover from their insurance companies for a COVID-19 business impact. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2384 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for the licensed practice of naturopathy and to provide reports. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2393 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Prohibits health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in-network mental health or substance use disorder services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2175 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAIR SHARE FOR DENTAL CARE ACT - Requires carriers offering dental benefit plans to annually submit information which includes the current and projected medical loss ratio for cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 Withdrawn at sponsor's request |