HOUSE BILL No. 5157

 

June 25, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Roberts, Bledsoe, Warren, Liss, Smith, Valentine, Byrnes, Lipton, Miller, Slavens, Hammel, Donigan, Barnett, Kennedy, Lisa Brown, Bauer, Robert Jones, Geiss, Gonzales, Haugh, Coulouris and Meadows and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 350, entitled

 

"The nonprofit health care corporation reform act,"

 

(MCL 550.1101 to 550.1704) by adding section 416e.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 416e. (1) A health care corporation group or nongroup

 

certificate that provides prescription coverage shall include

 

coverage for any prescribed drug or device approved by the United

 

States food and drug administration for use as a contraceptive.

 

     (2) Coverage under subsection (1) shall not be subject to any

 

dollar limit, copayment, deductible, or coinsurance provision that

 

does not apply to prescription coverage generally.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2010.