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Sen. Laura Fine
Filed: 2/7/2022
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3819
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3819 on page 6, |
| 3 | | line 20, by deleting "A group or"; and
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| 4 | | by replacing line 21 on page 6 through line 7 on page 7 with |
| 5 | | the following: |
| 6 | | "(a) A group or individual policy of accident and health |
| 7 | | insurance or a managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, |
| 8 | | or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 shall provide coverage |
| 9 | | for community-based pediatric palliative care and hospice |
| 10 | | care. This care shall be delivered to any qualifying child |
| 11 | | with a serious illness by a trained interdisciplinary team |
| 12 | | that allows a child to receive community-based pediatric |
| 13 | | palliative care and hospice care while continuing to pursue |
| 14 | | curative treatment and disease-directed therapies for the |
| 15 | | qualifying illness. |
| 16 | | (b) As used in this Section, "palliative care" and |
| 17 | | "serious illness" have the same meaning as set forth in the |