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ASSEMBLY BILL 1100 (BROWN-1993)
CHAPTER 1210, STATUTES OF 1993, AB 1100
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Sections 1389.1, et seq., were added to the Health and Safety Code; sections 10112.5 and 10384 were added to the Insurance Code; Insurance Code sections 799.03, 10291.5, 10350.2, 10508, 12683 and 12684 were amended; and section 2808 was added to the Labor Code in 1993 following legislative passage of Assembly Bill 1100. (See Exhibit A, #1f) Assembly Bill 1100 was introduced by Assembly member Willie Brown on March 2, 1993 on behalf of the AIDS Project Los Angeles, LIFE AIDS Lobby, and San Francisco AIDS Foundation. (See Exhibit A, #1; #3a, page 6; and #12a, page 1)
The measure was heard in the Assembly Committee on Health and the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. (See Exhibit A, #3 and #5) In the Senate, the bill was heard before the Committee on Insurance, Claims, and Corporations and the Committee on Appropriations. (See Exhibit A, #8 and #10) This bill was amended four times as it was considered by the Legislature. (See Exhibit A, #1a through #1e) Assembly Bill 1100 was approved by the Legislature and forwarded to the Governor, who signed on October 11, 1993, and recorded as Chapter 1210 of the Statutes of 1993. (See Exhibit A, #1f and #2)
A Third Reading analysis prepared by the Office of Senate Floor Analyses provided the following digest of Assembly Bill 1100 as it was last amended on September 8, 1993:
This bill enacts the Health Insurance Access and Equity Act. The measure makes numerous findings regarding the lack of access to, and high cost of, health care and health insurance, and the particular difficulties faced by people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in obtaining health care and insurance.
Senate Floor Amendments of 9/7/93 remove provisions relating to private right of action, development of uniform data, Medicare supplemental insurance, and COBRA conversion rights.
(See Exhibit A, #12b, page 1)