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
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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
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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
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BRAD
OWEN
President
of the Senate
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Approved May 14, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes
below.
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FILED
May 14, 1999 - 6:44
p.m.
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GARY
LOCKE
Governor
of the State of Washington
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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
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.