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Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe
Filed: 5/15/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 54
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 54 as follows:
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| 3 | | on page 2, line 12, by replacing "may include" with "includes"; |
| 4 | | and
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| 5 | | on page 6, line 4, by replacing "may include" with "includes"; |
| 6 | | and
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| 7 | | on page 14, line 11, by replacing "may include" with |
| 8 | | "includes"; and
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| 9 | | on page 31, by replacing lines 23 and 24 with the following:
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| 10 | | "Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on July |
| 11 | | 1, 2016, if and only if on or before July 1, 2016: |
| 12 | | (1) the Secretary of the United States Department of |
| 13 | | Health and Human Services, or its successor agency, promulgates |
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| 1 | | rules or regulations published in the Federal Register or |
| 2 | | publishes 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 |
| 17 | | is repealed by an Act of Congress or is invalidated by a |
| 18 | | decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.".
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