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House Bill 1730 — 1955 Regular Session
Sponsor(s):
"BOIES", "KENT"
Short Title:
An Act providing for the regulation and supervision of nonprofit dental service corporations organized to provide dental services to subscribers of low income by the Department of Health and the Insurance Department, and defining the functions of such departments with respect thereto; authorizing certain departments, commissions, officers, and other agencies of the State and its political subdivisions to subscribe, under certain circumstances, to the dental service plan of such corporations on behalf of persons of low income; prescribing legal investments for the funds of such corporations, and the rights of doctors of dental surgery to register with such corporations; conferring authority on the Department of Health and on the Insurance Commissioner, each within its own sphere of lawful activity, to regulate and supervise such corporations, conferring certain rights, powers, duties, and immunities upon such corporations and their officers and members; prescribing the conditions on which such corporations may exercise their powers; exempting such corporations from taxation; prohibiting any person, co-partnership, association, common law trust or corporation, except a nonprofit dental service corporation, from providing dental services on a nonprofit plan in return for prepayment, periodical, or lump sum payments; providing penalties for the violation of, and mandatory and injunctive relief for the enforcement of, the provisions of this act.
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Action History:
| Referred to the Committee on Insurance, August 2. |
| Reported as amended, August 30. |
| Passed first reading, August 31. |
| Passed second reading with amendments, September 12. |
| Passed third reading and final passage, September 13. (190-0) |
| In the Senate |
| Referred to the Committee on Insurance, September 14. |
| Reported as committed, November 14. |
| Passed first reading, November 14. |
| Passed second reading, November 21. |
| Passed third reading and final passage, November 22. (48-0) |
| Approved by the Governor, December 9. |
| Act No. 239 |