HB 2228 - DIGEST

Establishes the Washington patient choice restoration act.

Reduces state health insurance mandates in counties with one or fewer health plans offered in the individual market to incentivize insurers to reenter the marketplace and revitalize competition and consumer choice.

Requires the insurance commissioner, if he or she has received one or fewer filings for individual market health plans to be offered in a particular county by the standard filing deadline, to extend the filing deadline by at least sixty days for plans to be offered in that county.