HB4830 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024
HB4830

Introduced 2/7/2024, by Rep. Kevin John Olickal

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

`215 ILCS 5/355.6 new`
`215 ILCS 109/47 new`
`215 ILCS 110/30.5 new`

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the Dental Care Patient Protection Act, and the Dental Service Plan Act. Provides that no insurer, dental service plan corporation, professional service corporation, insurance network leasing company, company offering a managed care dental plan, company offering a point-of-service plan, or any company that amends, delivers, issues, or renews an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance that provides dental insurance in this State may deny coverage for replacement of teeth to any insured on the basis of those teeth having been extracted or otherwise lost prior to the person becoming covered under the plan.

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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning regulation.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by

5 adding Section 355.6 as follows:

6 (215 ILCS 5/355.6 new)

7 Sec. 355.6. Replacement of teeth. No insurer, dental

8 service plan corporation, professional service corporation,

9 insurance network leasing company, or any company that amends,

10 delivers, issues, or renews an individual or group policy of

11 accident and health insurance that provides dental insurance

12 in this State may deny coverage for replacement of teeth to any

13 insured on the basis of those teeth having been extracted or

14 otherwise lost prior to the person becoming covered under the

15 plan.

16 Section 10. The Dental Care Patient Protection Act is

17 amended by adding Section 47 as follows:

18 (215 ILCS 109/47 new)

19 Sec. 47. Replacement of teeth. No company offering a

20 managed care dental plan or a point-of-service plan may deny

21 coverage for replacement of teeth to any enrollee on the basis

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1 of those teeth having been extracted or otherwise lost prior

2 to the person becoming enrolled under the plan.

3 Section 15. The Dental Service Plan Act is amended by

4 adding Section 30.5 as follows:

5 (215 ILCS 110/30.5 new)

6 Sec. 30.5. Replacement of teeth. No dental service plan

7 company may deny coverage for replacement of teeth to any

8 beneficiary on the basis of those teeth having been extracted

9 or otherwise lost prior to the person becoming a beneficiary.