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Senate committee advances bills to open insurance pools for housing projects, boost biomarker testing transparency and authorize Guard life insurance program
Summary
A Senate committee voted to report multiple House bills affecting insurance and health policy, including a measure to let low-income housing project entities join an insurance pool, biomarker-testing legislation called 'Jill's Law,' changes to step-therapy rules, a $3 million LOSAP extension for volunteer firefighters and authorization of a state-sponsored life-insurance program for National Guard members.
A Senate committee on insurance and related matters voted to advance a package of House bills that would change how insurance and health programs operate for housing authorities, patients and military service members.
Senator Heckman said House Bill 10-75, sponsored by the Housing Authority, would let entities created through public-private partnerships participate in the authorities’ insurance pool so projects can lower their insurance costs. "This bill... allows these entities that's created to develop these low income housing authorities on the bill improvements and then we'll make improvements," Senator Heckman said, adding the change responds to shifts in HUD funding and the use of low-income tax credits that can exclude some projects from current pools.
The measure was reported out of committee on a motion described in the transcript as "title…
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