Requiring guaranteed issue of medicare supplemental coverage to an individual who voluntarily disenrolls from a medicare advantage plan and enrolls in medicare parts A and B.

 H-0726.1

HOUSE BILL 1603

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Berg, Parshley, Reed, Bernbaum, Thai, Kloba, and Hill

Read first time 01/27/25. Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

AN ACT Relating to requiring guaranteed issue of medicare supplemental coverage to an individual who voluntarily disenrolls from a medicare advantage plan and enrolls in medicare parts A and B; and amending RCW 48.66.055 .

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 48.66.055 and 2019 c 38 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Under this section, persons eligible for a medicare supplement policy or certificate are those individuals described in subsection (3) of this section who, subject to subsection (3)(b)(ii) of this section, apply to enroll under the policy not later than sixty-three days after the date of the termination of enrollment described in subsection (3) of this section, and who submit evidence of the date of termination or disenrollment, or medicare part D enrollment, with the application for a medicare supplement policy.