Committee sends three bills to House floor after unanimous roll-call votes

The House Committee on Corporations unanimously approved three bills during its March 12 meeting and forwarded them to the full House.

H.B. 7002, introduced by Chairman Corvazi, would bar health care providers and health plans from denying payment of a medical bill solely because it arises from a third-party claim. The committee moved the bill for passage and approved it by roll call, 9–0.

H.B. 7111, described to the committee as clarifying that a contract modification includes any change in producer compensation, was reported out by the committee on a 9–0 roll-call vote.

H.B. 7265 (the Rhode Island Special Deposits Act) also passed the committee by a 9–0 roll call and will go to the House floor for further consideration.

Each vote was taken early in the committee’s session after the chair summarized the bills and members offered no substantive discussion; the clerk conducted roll-call voting before the committee moved on to the remainder of its agenda.