Florida Senate - 2022 SB 328 By Senator Rodriguez 39-00546-22 2022328__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to insurance coverage for at-home 3 COVID-19 test kits; creating s. 627.42398, F.S.; 4 defining the term at-home COVID-19 test kit; 5 requiring health insurers and health maintenance 6 organizations to provide 100 percent coverage for at 7 home COVID-19 test kits; providing for expiration of 8 the insurance coverage; providing an effective date. 9 10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 11 12 Section 1.Section 627.42398, Florida Statutes, is created 13 to read: 14 627.42398Coverage for at-home COVID-19 test kits. 15 (1)As used in this section, the term at-home COVID-19 16 test kit means an over-the-counter diagnostic test kit that 17 serves to detect active COVID-19 infections and for which the 18 United States Food and Drug Administration has issued an 19 Emergency Use Authorization. The term includes: 20 (a)A COVID-19 self-collection kit, including, but not 21 limited to, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which 22 provides results after a sample is received by a lab. 23 (b)A COVID-19 self-test kit, including, but not limited 24 to, a rapid antigen test, which provides results in minutes. 25 (2)A health insurer or health maintenance organization 26 must provide 100 percent coverage for an at-home COVID-19 test 27 kit that is purchased with or without a prescription, to be used 28 at home or elsewhere. 29 (3)This section expires December 31, 2023. 30 Section 2.This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.