BILL NUMBER: SB 890	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alquist

                        JANUARY 21, 2010

   An act relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 890, as introduced, Alquist. Health care coverage.
   Existing law provides for licensing and regulation of health care
service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law
provides for licensing and regulation of health insurers by the
Department of Insurance. Existing law creates various programs to
provide health care services to persons of limited incomes, including
the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to implement
federal health care reforms by enacting specified legislation in that
regard.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to implement
federal health care reform legislation.
   (b) In order to accomplish this goal, the Legislature proposes to
take, at a minimum, all of the following steps by enacting
legislation in that regard:
   (1) Enacting and enforcing health insurance market reforms,
including, but not limited to, increasing the limiting age for
dependent coverage, and addressing rescission, preexisting condition
exclusions, rating rules, medical loss ratios, waiting periods,
annual and lifetime limits, and guaranteed issue.
   (2) Expanding Medi-Cal coverage to medically indigent adults.
   (3) Modifying the provisions relating to the Major Risk Medical
Insurance Program in order to make the state eligible for federal
funding.