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This bill, titled "Medicaid Expansion Adjustments", proposes several changes to Utah's Medicaid program, including: - Expanding Medicaid eligibility to individuals with incomes below 95% of the federal poverty level, subject to certain conditions and approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). - Allowing the state to close enrollment in the Medicaid expansion if funding is insufficient. - Requiring the state to seek waivers from CMS to implement certain flexibilities and cost controls in the Medicaid expansion, such as work requirements and mandatory employer-sponsored insurance enrollment. - Establishing a Medicaid Expansion Fund to pay the state's share of Medicaid expansion costs, funded through hospital assessments, county contributions, and other sources. - Transferring revenues from a 0.15% sales and use tax rate increase to the Medicaid Expansion Fund. - Providing appropriations to the Medicaid Expansion Fund and the base Medicaid program for fiscal years 2019 and 2020. The bill aims to expand Medicaid coverage while implementing cost control measures and securing funding sources to support the expansion.

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