SLS 14RS-769 ORIGINAL
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words in boldface type and underscored are additions.
Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 403
BY SENATOR MILLS
HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE. Provides relative to third party payments of health insurance
premiums of individuals with HIV/AIDS. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 22:1080, relative to third party premium payments; to provide with respect to2
insurers acceptance of third party premium payments; to require acceptance of3
premium payments from a fund or grant established by an office, agency, or political4
subdivision of a state, federal, parochial, or municipal governmental entity; and to5
provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 22:1080 is hereby enacted to read as follows:8
ยง1080. Third party premium payments; refusal of acceptance9
No health insurance issuer or health maintenance organization shall10
refuse the receipt of a premium payment when such payment is made by a third11
party to the insurance contract, provided that the payment is made from or12
pursuant to a fund or grant established by any office, agency, or political13
subdivision of a state, federal, parochial, or municipal governmental entity.14
This Section shall not be construed to require a health insurance issuer or15
health maintenance organization to accept a third party premium payment16
from a health care provider.17 SB NO. 403
SLS 14RS-769 ORIGINAL
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cheryl Horne.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 403)
Proposed law prohibits a health insurance issuer or health maintenance organization from
refusing to accept premium payments when such payment is made by a third party to the
insurance contract, provided that the payment is made from or pursuant to a fund or grant
established by any office, agency, or political subdivision of a state, federal, parochial, or
municipal governmental entity.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 22:1080)