Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe

Filed: 5/15/2015

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 54

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 54 as follows:
 
3on page 2, line 12, by replacing "may include" with "includes";
4and
 
5on page 6, line 4, by replacing "may include" with "includes";
6and
 
7on page 14, line 11, by replacing "may include" with
8"includes"; and
 
9on page 31, by replacing lines 23 and 24 with the following:
 
10    "Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on July
111, 2016, if and only if on or before July 1, 2016:
12     (1) the Secretary of the United States Department of
13Health and Human Services, or its successor agency, promulgates

 

 

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1rules or regulations published in the Federal Register or
2publishes a comment in the Federal Register:
3         (A) repealing, amending, or reinterpreting 45 CFR
4    155.170 to eliminate the State's responsibility to defray
5    the cost of a state-mandated benefit enacted on or after
6    January 1, 2012;
7        (B) requiring qualified health plans, as defined in the
8    federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as
9    amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
10    of 2010 and any subsequent amendatory Acts, rules, or
11    regulations issued pursuant thereto, to cover breast
12    tomosynthesis as an essential health benefit; or
13        (C) including breast tomosynthesis as a standard as
14    part of the essential health benefits required of benchmark
15    plans under 45 CFR 156.110; or
16    (2) the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
17is repealed by an Act of Congress or is invalidated by a
18decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.".