Arizona SB 1212: prepaid legal insurance contracts; definition

Bill Text

SB1212 - 572R - S Ver 

 Senate Engrossed

 health insurance; 
 reimbursement rates; vaccines

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SENATE BILL 1212

AN 
ACT

amending title 20, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona 
Revised Statutes, by adding section 20-243; relating to health insurance.

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Be it 
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.1. Title 
20, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding 
section 20-243, to read:

START_STATUTE20-243. Health care insurer; covered individual; vaccine refusal; 
reimbursement rates; definitions

A. Beginning January 1, 2027, a 
health care insurer may not reimburse a health professional at a different rate 
based on a covered individual's decision to refuse one or 
more vaccines.

B. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Covered individual" 
means an insured, enrollee or subscriber of a health care insurer.

2. "Health care insurer" 
means a disability insurer, group disability insurer, blanket disability 
insurer, health care services organization, hospital services corporation, 
medical service corporation or hospital, medical, dental and optometric service 
corporation that issues a health plan in this state.

3. "Health professional" 
has the same meaning prescribed in section 32-3201. END_STATUTE