Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session (2009)
Bills Indexed by Subject
INSURANCE, DEPARTMENT OF
HB 54
--- Sponsor:
Wildberger, Edward
Specifies that mutual insurance companies will no longer be exempt
from laws relating to policy cancellations and unfair claims
settlement practices
HB 57
--- Sponsor:
Wildberger, Edward
--- CoSponsor:
Nasheed, Jamilah
Changes the laws regarding certain professions including child care,
registered surgical technologists, the Elevator Board, medical school
certification, and dentistry
HB 60
--- Sponsor:
Lipke, Scott A.
Allows persons who have exhausted their total lifetime benefits to be
eligible for coverage under the Missouri Health Insurance Pool
HB 81
--- Sponsor:
Still, Mary
--- CoSponsor:
Webber, Stephen
Changes the laws regarding unsecured loans of $500 or less, sometimes
referred to as payday loans, and allows the Attorney General to
maintain an action to enforce compliance
HB 142
--- Sponsor:
Hughes, Leonard
--- CoSponsor:
Curls, Shalonn
Changes the laws regarding the use of credit information when
underwriting insurance contracts
HB 150
--- Sponsor:
Still, Mary
--- CoSponsor:
Burnett, John P.
Changes the laws regarding unsecured loans of $500 or less, commonly
known as payday loans, and allows the Attorney General to
maintain an action to enforce compliance
HB 232
--- Sponsor:
Ervin, Doug
Changes the laws regarding the Missouri Health Insurance Pool
HB 243
--- Sponsor:
Molendorp, Chris
Expands the membership of the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral
Directors by adding five consumer advocates
HB 259
--- Sponsor:
Tilley, Steven
Allows a health insurance carrier 45 processing days, instead of the
current 45 calendar days, to pay a claim
HB 298
--- Sponsor:
Scharnhorst, Dwight
--- CoSponsor:
Schoemehl, Sue
Requires health carriers issuing or renewing a health plan to provide
individuals younger than 18 years of age insurance coverage for the
diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders
HB 326
--- Sponsor:
Sutherland, Mike
Prohibits entities from using titles or initials to identify employees
or volunteers as social workers unless they are licensed and requires
coverage for mental health benefits by marital and family therapists
HB 357
--- Sponsor:
Scharnhorst, Dwight
--- CoSponsor:
Schoemehl, Sue
Requires health carriers issuing or renewing a health plan to provide
individuals younger than 18 years of age insurance coverage for the
diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders
HB 367
--- Sponsor:
Brandom, Ellen
--- CoSponsor:
Munzlinger, Brian
Creates the Missouri Catastrophe Fund to help protect property
and casualty insurers against insolvencies caused by earthquakes
HB 368
--- Sponsor:
Aull, Joe
Requires insurers to obtain approval from the Department of
Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration
before raising any insurance premium rate by 15% or more
HB 382
--- Sponsor:
Cox, Stanley
--- CoSponsor:
Guernsey, Casey
Repeals the Residential Mortgage Brokers License Act and establishes
in its place the Missouri Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage
Licensing and Residential Mortgage Brokers Licensing Act
HB 413
--- Sponsor:
Low, Beth
--- CoSponsor:
Jones, Tishaura
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for human papillomavirus
screenings for cervical cancer
HB 425
--- Sponsor:
Cooper, Robert Wayne
--- CoSponsor:
Schaaf, Robert
Changes the laws regarding the practice of applying permanent
cosmetics, tattooing, body piercing, and branding
HB 497
--- Sponsor:
Ervin, Doug
--- CoSponsor:
Cox, Stanley
Changes the laws regarding transparency of health care information,
Missouri Health Insurance Pool, and patient privacy and safety
HB 508
--- Sponsor:
Kuessner, J. C.
--- CoSponsor:
Harris, Belinda
Requires medical malpractice insurers to establish premiums based on
the average medical malpractice judgment awarded by county during
the previous calendar year
HB 513
--- Sponsor:
Wells, Don
--- CoSponsor:
Wasson, Jay
Changes the laws regarding pharmacies and pharmacists
HB 514
--- Sponsor:
Wells, Don
--- CoSponsor:
Wasson, Jay
Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact
HB 531
--- Sponsor:
Yates, Brian David
--- CoSponsor:
Zimmerman, Jake
Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging
different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel
destinations with certain exceptions
HB 536
--- Sponsor:
Dixon, Bob
--- CoSponsor:
Lampe, Sara
Authorizes the licensure of prescribing psychologists
HB 577
--- Sponsor:
Yates, Brian David
--- CoSponsor:
Richard, Ron
Changes the laws regarding the regulation of insurance
HB 584
--- Sponsor:
Talboy, Mike
--- CoSponsor:
Low, Beth
Requires pharmacies to dispense all valid lawful prescriptions for
contraceptives without delay
HB 606
--- Sponsor:
Stevenson, Bryan P.
--- CoSponsor:
Flanigan, Tom
Adds professional, amateur, and youth mixed martial arts contests to
the Division of Professional Registration's supervision and prohibits
certain persons from participating in mixed martial arts contests
HB 614
--- Sponsor:
Schaaf, Robert
--- CoSponsor:
Meadows, Tim
Prohibits health insurers from imposing any co-payment or
co-insurance, or combination thereof, that exceeds 50% of the total
cost of providing the health care service to an enrollee
HB 616
--- Sponsor:
Cooper, Robert Wayne
--- CoSponsor:
Talboy, Mike
Requires health carriers issuing or renewing a health plan to provide
coverage for prosthetic devices, related services, and supplies
HB 691
--- Sponsor:
Schaaf, Robert
Authorizes the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
to establish an impaired physician program for physicians who
may be impaired due to illness, substance abuse, or mental condition
HB 735
--- Sponsor:
Yates, Brian David
--- CoSponsor:
Nance, Bob
Establishes the Uninsured Motorist Stipulation of Benefits Act of
2009 which changes the laws regarding uninsured motorists
HB 750
--- Sponsor:
Faith, Sally A.
--- CoSponsor:
Dixon, Bob
Establishes requirements for the licensure of naturopathic
physicians
HB 760
--- Sponsor:
Grill, Jason
--- CoSponsor:
Grisamore, Jeff
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for the
diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder
HB 777
--- Sponsor:
Yates, Brian David
Changes the laws regarding insurance regulation
HB 796
--- Sponsor:
Lampe, Sara
--- CoSponsor:
Grisamore, Jeff
Requires all health carriers offering health benefits plans to provide
coverage for mental health conditions and autism spectrum disorder
HB 797
--- Sponsor:
Lampe, Sara
--- CoSponsor:
Grisamore, Jeff
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for
autism spectrum disorder with certain guidelines that are allowed
under federal mental health parity laws
HB 823
--- Sponsor:
Skaggs, Trent
Prohibits an insurer from using credit reports or credit scoring as a
factor in underwriting an insurance contract
HB 841
--- Sponsor:
Wasson, Jay
Transfers the duties for the regulation of certain professions from
the Division of Professional Registration to the specific governing
body for the profession
HB 842
--- Sponsor:
Wood, Dennis
Revises the definition of "commercial real estate" as it relates to
licensed real estate brokers and agents and defines "boat dock" as
real property with owners having riparian rights to the water it is in
HB 852
--- Sponsor:
Wasson, Jay
Specifies that certain information collected from health maintenance
and community-based health maintenance organizations that does not
contain identifiable information will be public information
HB 866
--- Sponsor:
Wells, Don
--- CoSponsor:
Tilley, Steven
Allows certain unsubstantiated complaints made against licensed social
workers and physicians by certain sexually violent predators to be
removed from the regulating entity's records
HB 945
--- Sponsor:
Wells, Don
--- CoSponsor:
Wasson, Jay
Changes the laws regarding certain professions, the State Legal
Expense Fund, endowed care cemeteries, and prescriptive authority
for physician assistants and adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact
HB 957
--- Sponsor:
Grisamore, Jeff
--- CoSponsor:
Pratt, Bryan
Changes the laws regarding the licensure requirements for out-of-state
wholesale drug distributors
HB 962
--- Sponsor:
Molendorp, Chris
Changes the laws regarding insurance producers and brokers
HB 986
--- Sponsor:
Schaaf, Robert
Prohibits a health carrier or health benefit plan from denying
reimbursement for diagnostic imaging services based solely on a
licensed physician's specialty or professional board certification
HB 1087
--- Sponsor:
Schoemehl, Sue
--- CoSponsor:
Ruestman, Marilyn
Establishes requirements for the licensure of naturopathic
physicians
HB 1150
--- Sponsor:
Kander, Jason
--- CoSponsor:
Atkins, Bert
Requires every licensed insurer in the state to publish annual
performance data for the preceding calendar year on its Internet web
site
HB 1176
--- Sponsor:
Nance, Bob
--- CoSponsor:
LeVota, Paul
Changes the laws regarding fire protection agencies
HB 1189
--- Sponsor:
Parson, Michael L.
--- CoSponsor:
Rucker, Martin T.
Requires home inspectors to be licensed by the Division of
Professional Registration within the Department of Insurance,
Financial Institutions and Professional Registration
- SB 69
--- Sponsor:
Bray, Joan
- Modifies law regarding property insurance
- SB 126
--- Sponsor:
Rupp, Scott T.
- Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging
different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel
destinations unless such action is based upon sound actuarial princip
- SB 169
--- Sponsor:
Shoemyer, Wes
- Regulates insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans
- SB 236
--- Sponsor:
Lembke, Jim
- Modifies various provisions of the prompt pay statutes as they relate
to the calculation of interest and penalties, the payment of
attorney fees, and other ancillary matters
- SB 237
--- Sponsor:
Lembke, Jim
- Adopts the nurse licensure compact
- SB 269
--- Sponsor:
Rupp, Scott T.
- Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of captive
insurance companies
- SB 283
--- Sponsor:
Lembke, Jim
- Prohibits health carriers from imposing co-insurance or co-payment
amounts that exceeds 50% of the total cost of any single health care
service
- SB 318
--- Sponsor:
Lembke, Jim
- Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually
violent predators against certain licensed professionals
- SB 370
--- Sponsor:
Bray, Joan
- Modifies the law relating to foreclosures
- SB 410
--- Sponsor:
Stouffer, Bill
- Modifies various laws governing medical malpractice insurance
- SB 415
--- Sponsor:
Dempsey, Tom
- Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance
- SB 464
--- Sponsor:
Stouffer, Bill
- Modifies various provisions relating to insurance producers
- SB 475
--- Sponsor:
Wright-Jones, Robin
- Requires health carriers to devote a certain percentage of their
total annual Missouri-associated revenues on health care services
- SB 483
--- Sponsor:
Rupp, Scott T.
- Revises Missouri's annual financial reporting law to correspond with
the NAIC model regulations
- SB 517
--- Sponsor:
Lembke, Jim
- Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health
care services
- SB 547
--- Sponsor:
Schmitt, Eric
- Modifies several provisions of law relating to health insurance
- SB 553
--- Sponsor:
Crowell, Jason
- Reorganizes the state health care system
Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 17, 2009 at 9:31 am