AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO INVESTIGATE AND ENFORCE CONDUCT RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE PRACTICES.

Plain English Breakdown

The official text confirms the bill passed both chambers but does not show if it was signed by the Governor or vetoed.

Funding for Health Insurance Investigations

This bill gives $5 million to the Attorney General's office from the state budget to investigate health insurance companies that limit care access, raise costs, or break laws.

What This Bill Does

• Appropriates five million dollars from the state General Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027.
• Expands the capacity of the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and enforce conduct related to health insurance practices.
• Targets health carriers whose actions impact healthcare access, inflate consumer costs, or violate federal or state law.
• Requires a report summarizing investigations or enforcement actions be submitted by February 1, 2028.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Office of the Attorney General
• Health carriers (insurance companies)
• Joint standing committees on insurance and public health

Terms To Know

Appropriates funds

Sets aside a specific amount of money from the government budget for a certain use.

Health carriers

Companies that provide health insurance plans to consumers and businesses.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify which specific laws or practices will be investigated first.
• The text does not state exactly how the five million dollars must be spent within the office beyond expanding capacity for investigations.
• No effective date is listed in the provided source material.

Official Summary Text

To: (1) Expand the capacity of the office of the Attorney General to investigate and enforce conduct related to health insurance practices by health carriers that impact access to health care, inflate consumer costs or violate federal or state law; and (2) require that said office submit a report to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to insurance and public health, not later than February 1, 2028, summarizing any such investigation or enforcement action taken by said office.

Current Bill Text

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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 211
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 23

Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE

Introduced by:
SEN. ANWAR, 3rd Dist.

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO INVESTIGATE AND ENFORCE
CONDUCT RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE PRACTICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That the sum of five million dollars be appropriated to the office of 1
the Attorney General from the General Fund, for the fiscal year ending 2
June 30, 2027, to: (1) Expand said office's capacity to investigate and 3
enforce conduct related to health insurance practices by health carriers 4
that impact access to health care, inflate consumer costs or violate 5
federal or state law; and (2) require that said office submit a report to 6
the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having 7
cognizance of matters relating to insurance and public health, not later 8
than February 1, 2028, summarizing any such investigation or 9
enforcement action taken by said office. 10
Statement of Purpose:
To: (1) Expand the capacity of the office of the Attorney General to
investigate and enforce conduct related to health insurance practices by
health carriers that impact access to health care, inflate consumer costs
or violate federal or state law; and (2) require that said office submit a
report to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having
Proposed Bill No. 211

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cognizance of matters relating to insurance and public health, not later
than February 1, 2028, summarizing any such investigation or
enforcement action taken by said office.