CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1539

 

 

                   Chapter 334, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE--REPLACING POLICIES

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 8, 1999

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

        JOHN E. PENNINGTON, JR.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 25, 1999

  Yeas 42   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1539  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved May 14, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.           

                                FILED                

 

             May 14, 1999 - 6:44 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1539

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Representative Parlette

 

Read first time 01/28/1999.  Referred to Committee on Health Care.

Clarifying medicare supplement policies.  


    AN ACT Relating to medicare supplement policies; amending RCW 48.66.045; and declaring an emergency.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 48.66.045 and 1995 c 85 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    Every issuer of a medicare supplement insurance policy or certificate providing coverage to a resident of this state issued on or after January 1, 1996, shall:

    (1) Issue coverage under its standardized benefit plans B, C, D, E, F, and G without evidence of insurability to any resident of this state who is eligible for both medicare hospital and physician services by reason of age or by reason of disability or end-stage renal disease, if the medicare supplement policy replaces another medicare supplement standardized benefit plan policy or certificate B, C, D, E, F, or G, or other more comprehensive coverage than the ((replaced)) replacing policy;

    (2) Issue coverage under its standardized plans A, H, I, and J without evidence of insurability to any resident of this state who is eligible for both medicare hospital and physician services by reason of age or by reason of disability or end-stage renal disease, if the medicare supplement policy replaces another medicare supplement policy or certificate which is the same standardized plan as the replaced policy; and

    (3) Set rates only on a community-rated basis.  Premiums shall be equal for all policyholders and certificate holders under a standardized medicare supplement benefit plan form, except that an issuer may develop no more than two rating pools that distinguish between an insured's eligibility for medicare by reason of:

    (a) Age; or

    (b) Disability or end-stage renal disease.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.


    Passed the House March 8, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 25, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 14, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 14, 1999.