Rep. Ron Stephens

Filed: 3/31/2004

 

 


 

 


 
09300HB6299ham001 LRB093 15106 SAS 48115 a

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6299

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6299 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
5 adding Section 356z.6 as follows:
 
6     (215 ILCS 5/356z.6 new)
7     Sec. 356z.6. Vision therapy.
8     (a) An individual or group policy of accident and health
9 insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or
10 renewed in this State after the effective date of this
11 amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, must include
12 coverage for vision therapy, therapeutic lenses, prisms,
13 filters, occlusions, and specialized equipment used in the
14 vision therapy treatment process.
15     (b) For the purposes of this Section, "vision therapy"
16 means a treatment process used to improve vision function.
17 Vision therapy includes a broad range of developmental and
18 rehabilitative treatment programs individually prescribed to
19 remediate specific sensory, motor, or visual perception
20 dysfunctions.
 
21     Section 10. The Health Maintenance Organization Act is
22 amended by changing Section 4-6.5 as follows:
 

 

 

09300HB6299ham001 - 2 - LRB093 15106 SAS 48115 a

1     (215 ILCS 125/4-6.5)
2     Sec. 4-6.5. Required health benefits; Illinois Insurance
3 Code requirements. A health maintenance organization is
4 subject to the provisions of Sections 155.37, 356t, 356u, and
5 356z.1, and 356z.6 of the Illinois Insurance Code.
6 (Source: P.A. 92-130, eff. 7-20-01; 92-440, eff. 8-17-01;
7 92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)
 
8     Section 15. The Voluntary Health Services Plans Act is
9 amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
10     (215 ILCS 165/10)  (from Ch. 32, par. 604)
11     Sec. 10. Application of Insurance Code provisions. Health
12 services plan corporations and all persons interested therein
13 or dealing therewith shall be subject to the provisions of
14 Articles IIA and XII 1/2 and Sections 3.1, 133, 140, 143, 143c,
15 149, 155.37, 354, 355.2, 356r, 356t, 356u, 356v, 356w, 356x,
16 356y, 356z.1, 356z.2, 356z.4, 356z.5, 356z.6, 367.2, 368a, 401,
17 401.1, 402, 403, 403A, 408, 408.2, and 412, and paragraphs (7)
18 and (15) of Section 367 of the Illinois Insurance Code.
19 (Source: P.A. 92-130, eff. 7-20-01; 92-440, eff. 8-17-01;
20 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 92-764, eff. 1-1-03; 93-102, eff. 1-1-04;
21 93-529, eff. 8-14-03; revised 9-25-03.)
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23 becoming law.".