[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4506 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4506

  To ensure coverage of pre-existing conditions under private health 
                   insurance, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 6, 2020

  Mr. Gardner introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure coverage of pre-existing conditions under private health 
                   insurance, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pre-Existing Conditions Protection 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PRE-EXISTING CONDITION PROTECTIONS.

    A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or 
individual health insurance coverage may not impose any pre-existing 
condition exclusion with respect to such plan or coverage, factor 
health status into premiums or charges, exclude benefits relating to 
pre-existing conditions from coverage, or otherwise exclude benefits, 
set limits, or increase charges based on any pre-existing condition or 
health status.
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