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HB0282 • 2007

Wyoming healthcare commission study.

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for a study by the Wyoming healthcare commission of clauses in health insurance excluding coverage for claims related to the insured's participation in clinical trials; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Healthcare
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Labor
Last action
2007-02-28
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2007-02-28 Wyoming Legislature

    Died In Committee

  2. 2007-01-24 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H10; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2007-01-23 House

    H Received for Introduction

  4. 2007-01-22 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0357

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0282

Wyoming
healthcare commission study
.

Sponsored by:
Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for a study by the
Wyoming
healthcare commission of clauses in health insurance excluding coverage for claims related to the insured's participation in clinical trials; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
The
Wyoming
healthcare commission shall conduct a study of issues related to the exclusion from coverage, under health insurance policies or certificates of health maintenance organizations, of claims related to the insured's participation in a clinical trial of a new pharmaceutical drug or clinical procedure. The study shall seek to identify ways to authorize coverage of routine patient care costs associated with clinical trials while excluding coverage for the direct cost of the item or procedure being tested. The commission shall report the results of its study, with any recommended legislation, to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee by November 1, 2007.

Section 2.
There is appropriated to the
Wyoming
healthcare commission for the purposes of this act fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) from the general fund for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending December 31, 2007.

Section 3.
This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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