INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE - Feb 25, 2021

Insurance & Commerce - Senate · February 25, 2021

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Call to order; SB 239 introduction

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Chair opens the meeting, notes quorum and asks Senator Rapert to present Senate Bill 239 (SB239). Senator Rapert introduces SB239: allows insurers to offer a lower-cost small-group product by permitting self-funding with stop-loss coverage and loosens Arkansas' strict minimum attachment-point requirements to align with other Southeastern states.

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The Senate Insurance & Commerce Committee considered several bills, including HB1027 to allow online advertising of delinquent storage-unit auctions, SB290 to require insurers to cover diagnostic breast exams, technical fixes to the Telecommunications Access Program, and changes to reporting deadlines for burial associations. Multiple bills were moved do pass and advanced out of committee.

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