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Session of 2022
No. 2022-94
 
SB 1235
 
AN ACT
 
Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An act relating to insurance;
            amending, revising, and consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of insurance
            companies, and the regulation, supervision, and protection of home and foreign insurance
            companies, Lloyds associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and fire
            insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and supervision of insurance carried
            by such companies, associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by the
            State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and repealing existing laws,"
            in comprehensive health care for uninsured children, further providing for contracts
            and coverage packages.
         
 
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
 
Section 1.  Section 2304-A(b)(2) and (c) of the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as
            The Insurance Company Law of 1921, are amended to read:
         
Section 2304-A.  Contracts and coverage packages.
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(b)  Solicitation of contracts.--The department must solicit bids and award contracts through
            a competitive procurement process in accordance with the following:
         
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(2)  To the fullest extent practicable, the department must require that a contractor comply
            with all procedures relating to coordination of health care services as required by
            the department or the Insurance Department. The following apply:
(i)  The department may not develop or utilize bidding or service zones that limit a health
            service corporation or hospital plan corporation contractor from submitting a bid.
         
(ii)  If a health service corporation or hospital plan corporation is only able to service
            certain counties in this Commonwealth, the department shall solicit and accept bids
            from any health service corporation or hospital plan corporation for those counties
            in which it provides services.
         
(iii)  The department may not exclude or limit a health service corporation or hospital plan
            corporation from submitting a bid to service a county in this Commonwealth.
         
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(c)  Bidding.--Upon receipt of a solicitation from the department, each health service
            corporation and hospital plan corporation [or their] shall directly, or at the corporation's discretion through their affiliated entities doing business in this Commonwealth [shall], submit a bid or proposal to the department to carry out the purposes of this article
            in the area serviced by the corporation. If a health service corporation or hospital plan corporation directly submits a bid
               or proposal, the bid or proposal shall be for those counties in which it is permitted to offer its products.
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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
APPROVED--The 11th day of July, A.D. 2022.
 
TOM WOLF