PRINTER'S NO. 2153
No. 1362 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY ARMSTRONG, PUNT, ORIE, RAFFERTY, ERICKSON, GREENLEAF, REGOLA, PILEGGI, COSTA, D. WHITE, LEMMOND, BROWNE AND C. WILLIAMS, OCTOBER 12, 2006
REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, OCTOBER 12, 2006
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 2 Statutes, further providing for certification of hospital 3 plan corporations, for certification of professional health 4 service corporations and for scope of service. 5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 6 hereby enacts as follows: 7 Section 1. Sections 6102 and 6304 of Title 40 of the 8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended by adding 9 subsections to read: 10 § 6102. Certification of hospital plan corporations. 11 * * * 12 (e.1) Provision of service.--As a condition of any hospital 13 plan corporation certificate of authority granted under this 14 chapter, the department shall require that the holder provide 15 service throughout this Commonwealth. 16 (e.2) Amended application.--Any hospital plan corporation 17 holding a certificate of authority received from the department 18 prior to the effective date of this subsection must file and
1 have approved by the department within one year after the 2 effective date of this subsection an amended application for 3 certificate of authority which complies with subsection (e.1). 4 * * * 5 § 6304. Certification of professional health service 6 corporations. 7 * * * 8 (d.1) Provision of service.--As a condition of the 9 certificate of authority for any professional health service 10 plan, dental service plan or optometric service plan granted 11 under this chapter, the department and the Department of Health 12 shall require that the holder provide service throughout this 13 Commonwealth. 14 (d.2) Amended application.--Any professional health service 15 corporation holding a certificate of authority received from the 16 department prior to the effective date of this subsection must 17 file and have approved by the department within one year after 18 the effective date of this subsection an amended application for 19 certificate of authority which complies with subsection (d.1). 20 The exemption in subsection (b) shall not apply to this 21 subsection. 22 * * * 23 Section 2. Section 6322(a) of Title 40 is amended to read: 24 § 6322. Scope of service. 25 [(a) Territory of service.--The certificate of authority of 26 a professional health service corporation shall define the 27 limits of the area in which it may operate. If the corporation 28 is deemed to be a holder of a certificate of authority under 29 section 6304(b) of this title (relating to exemptions), the 30 articles of incorporation of the corporation on the effective 20060S1362B2153 - 2 -
1 date of this chapter, regardless of any subsequent amendment to 2 such articles, shall be deemed to be its initial certificate of 3 authority for the purposes of this section.] 4 * * * 5 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately. B23L40MSP/20060S1362B2153 - 3 -