SB745
Health insurance; prohibited restrictions on in-network referrals.
Status:
In House
Latest Action:
Feb. 10, 2026
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Chief Patron:
Kannan Srinivasan (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Health insurance; prohibited restrictions on in-network referrals.
Prohibits a health insurance carrier from prohibiting an in-network provider, as defined in the bill, from referring any patient or specimen to any in-network clinical laboratory or in-network pathology service provider under the terms of such insurance unless such referral would constitute a violation of certain laws.-
Bill History
- 01/19/2026 - Senate: Presented and ordered printed 26105075D
- 01/19/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/27/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26106219D-S1
- 02/05/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute (Voice Vote)
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
