Under existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, requires each state to establish a health insurance exchange to provide a centralized location where persons may obtain comparative information on available health insurance plans and facilitate the purchase and sale of such health insurance plans.
This bill would create the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange. This bill would provide that the exchange would operate as a nonprofit public corporation and would be recognized as such for tax purposes. This bill would provide that the exchange would be governed by a board and would provide for the membership, terms, and duties of the board.
This bill would require the exchange to make qualified health plans available to qualified individuals and qualified employers. This bill would authorize the exchange to charge fees to health insurance carriers, agents, and brokers in order to fund the exchange.
This bill would authorize the exchange to promulgate rules subject to the Administrative Procedure Act necessary to implement and operate the exchange.
This bill would provide that if provisions of the federal health care reform act authorizing the exchange are repealed, defunded, or declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, this act would be repealed.
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Further Consideration
Sanford motion to Carry Over Temporarily adopted Voice Vote
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Pending third reading on day 26 Favorable from Banking and Insurance with 7 amendments
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 7 amendments
Engrossed
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Banking and Insurance
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1048
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1047
Wren Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1046
Wren motion to Table adopted Roll Call 1045
HLTH 2nd Amendment Offered
Health Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1044
Health first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and 2 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Source: Alabama Legislature