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SB 296: Health Care Expenses

GENERAL BILL by Garcia

Health Care Expenses; Requiring a licensed facility to establish, update, and make public a list of the facility’s charges for services which meets certain federal requirements; prohibiting consumer reporting agencies from publishing a consumer report containing a medical debt credit impairment under certain circumstances; requiring the consumer reporting agency to remove the credit impairment, free of charge, under certain circumstances; authorizing patient-consumers to initiate legal proceedings for violations; prohibiting persons from reporting certain consumer debt to a consumer reporting agency without the express written consent of the creditor, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2022
 Last Action: 3/14/2022 Senate - Died in Health Policy
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  3. Appropriations (AP)

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  • Bill History

    Date Chamber Action
    9/22/2021 Senate • Filed
    10/13/2021 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 17
    11/3/2021 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/03/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
    1/11/2022 Senate • Introduced -SJ 17
    2/7/2022 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/10/22, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
    3/12/2022 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
    3/14/2022 Senate • Died in Health Policy

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  • SB 296, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 9/22/2021 at 9:14 AM

    Bill Text:   Web Page | PDF
    Analyses:   Health Policy (Pre-Meeting) 2/9/2022 (pdf)

    Related Bills (1)

    Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills
    H 1527 (c1) Health Care Expenses Finance and Facilities Subcommittee Compare Last Action: 3/14/2022 S Died in Appropriations Track This Bill

    Committee Amendments (1)

    Amendment Sponsor Filed Last Committee Action Format
    536352 - Amendment
    Delete line 126 and insert:     		Health Policy
    (Garcia)     		2/9/2022
    8:06 AM     		Web Page
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    Citations - Statutes (3)

    Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
    395.301 Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification. Page 2 (pdf)
    501.181 Page 2 (pdf)
    559.72 Prohibited practices generally. Page 5 (pdf)

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