Sen. George Barker

Commending Bud Foster.

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. DesignatesSeptember, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Ovarian CancerAwareness Month in Virginia.

Celebrating the life of William Griffith Thomas.

Commending John F. Reinhart.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Eva MaeFleming Scott.

Commending the South County High School footballteam.

Commending the Alexandria Police Department.

Motion picture theaters; required open-captionedshowings. Requires any motion picture theater that has four ormore separate auditoriums to provide two scheduled showings of amotion picture that engages open captions for a particular showingof an open-captioned-available motion picture each week in any auditoriumshowing any open-captioned-available motion picture. The measurerequires one showing in each auditorium to be during peak weekendmotion picture attendance hours, and at least half of the other open-captionedshowings to be during peak weekday motion picture attendance hours.If any auditorium is showing more than one motion picture during aweek, the theater may select the motion picture to offer as open-captionedshowings, but shall show a different motion picture on the weekendthan it shows during the week. The measure prohibits a theater fromproviding more than one open-captioned showing at overlapping timesunless the theater has more auditoriums than available showtimes.Persons suffering loss or injury resulting from a violation may bringan action to recover damages and reasonable attorney fees or injunctiverelief.

Health insurance; payment to out-of-networkproviders. Provides that when a covered person receives coveredemergency services from an out-of-network health care provider or receives out-of-network services at an in-network facility, the coveredperson is not required to pay the out-of-network provider any amountother than the applicable cost-sharing requirement. The measure alsoestablishes a standard for calculating the health carrier's requiredpayment to the out-of-network provider of the services, which standardis the lower of the market-based value for the service or 125 percentof the amount that would be paid under Medicare for the service.If such provider determines that the amount to be paid by the healthcarrier does not comply with the applicable requirements, the measure requires the provider and the health carrier to make a good faitheffort to reach a resolution on the appropriate amount of the reimbursementand, if a resolution is not reached, authorizes either party to request the State Corporation Commission to review the disputed reimbursement amount and determine if the amount complies with applicable requirements.The measure provides that such provisions do not apply to an entitythat provides or administers self-insured or self-funded plans; however, such entities may elect to be subject such provisions. Themeasure requires health carriers to make reports to the Bureau ofInsurance and directs the Bureau to provide reports to certain committeesof the General Assembly.