HEALTH BEN EXCHANGE-ENROLLMENT Senate SponsorsSen. Napoleon Harris, III 1/7/2025SenateSession Sine Die 215 ILCS 122/5-8 new215 ILCS 122/5-23Amends the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Law. Provides that the Department of Insurance and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services have the authority to require, when the Department of Insurance operates the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange as a State-based exchange, the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange to offer enhanced direct enrollment technology that allows approved enhanced direct enrollment entities to maintain enrollment services as offered through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace's enhanced direct enrollment implementation; to require enhanced direct enrollment to be available for the first open enrollment period for the State-based exchange; to require that the State-based exchange adopt the application programming interface for the Federally Facilitated Marketplace's enhanced direct enrollment or adopt an application programming interface that is substantially similar; and to require enhanced direct enrollment entities to be approved to operate in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace and maintain compliance with all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' privacy, security, and business requirements. Defines terms. 1/19/2024SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Napoleon Harris, III 1/19/2024SenateFirst Reading 1/19/2024SenateReferred to Assignments 2/6/2024SenateAssigned to Insurance 3/13/2024SenatePostponed - Insurance 3/15/2024SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024 4/5/2024SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 19, 2024 4/12/2024SenateRule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024 4/19/2024SenateRule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024 5/3/2024SenateRule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024 5/17/2024SenateRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments 1/7/2025SenateSession Sine Die