2ESHB 1508: Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board.
Signed into law: Chapter 80, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Macri
- Introduced
- January 23, 2023
- Status
- C 80 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 6/6/2024. (March 14, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:01 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Directs the Health Care Cost Transparency Board (Transparency Board) to conduct an annual survey of underinsurance among Washington residents and a study of how state tax preferences affect the calculation of total health care expenditures. Authorizes the Transparency Board to require that payers or health care providers that frequently exceed the health care cost growth benchmark without a reasonable justification submit a performance improvement plan or pay a civil fine.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 6, 202357 yea · 38 nay · 3 not voting
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 6, 202494 yea · 3 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 28, 202445 yea · 2 nay · 2 not voting
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