Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance Committee on February 3, 2009. The 2009 session has ended.
2009 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2885
Health insurance; require health insurance policies and State Health plan to cover autism spectrum disorders.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO REQUIRE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE, INCLUDING COVERAGE UNDER THE STATE AND SCHOOL EMPLOYEES HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN, FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; TO DEFINE "AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER" AS AN AUTISTIC DISORDER, ASPERGER'S SYNDROME, OR PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
26 co-sponsors
David Baria, Ezell Lee, David Blount, Kelvin Butler, Vincent Davis, Lydia Graves Chassaniol, David Jordan, Sidney Albritton, Jack Gordon, Haskins Montgomery, Nickey Browning, Billy Hudson, Gray Tollison, Tommy Dickerson, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Perry Lee, Joey Fillingane, Kenneth Wayne Jones, Terry C. Burton, Lee Yancey, Bennie L. Turner, Gary Jackson, Alice Harden, Giles Ward, Deborah Jeanne Dawkins, Michael Watson
Its course
January 19 to February 3, 2009, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 19 to Feb 3 · stopped15 days
InsuranceJan 19 to Feb 3 · stopped15 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.