• House Bill 1941 allows the Attorney General to investigate and file a restraining order against freestanding emergency rooms that are price gouging their patients.

• Senate Bill 1624 bans balance billing, which occurs when consumers are led to believe their medical treatment is covered by insurance when it isn’t and are left to pay the balance. This bill creates a new system that removes consumers from balance billing disputes, leaving the settlement over reimbursement between the insurer and provider.

• House Bill 2624, House Bill 2625 and House Bill 2945 criminalize card skimming and possessing card skimming devices and implement measures to monitor gas pumps to prevent future criminal actions.

• House Bill 2697 gives victims of identity theft who are threatened, abused or deceived into providing identifying information the same access to recovery tools as nonconsensual identity theft.

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