Bill > SB2130

Introduced Session

a bill to repeal the expiration date and to extend the mandated coverage or payment to apply to accident and health insurance policies. The public employees retirement system shall append to the bill a report regarding the effect of the mandated coverage or payment on the system's health insurance programs. The report must include information on the utilization and costs relating to the mandated coverage or payment and a recommendation on whether the coverage or payment should continue. For purposes of this section, the bill is not a legislative measure mandating health insurance coverage of services or payment for specified providers of services, unless the bill is amended following introduction so as to change the bill's mandate. A majority of the members of the committee, acting through the chairman, has sole authority to determine whether a legislative measure mandates coverage of services under this section. Any amendment made during a legislative session to a measure which mandates health insurance coverage of services may not be acted on by a committee of the legislative assembly unless the amendment is accompanied by a cost-benefit analysis provided by the legislative councilThe legislative management shall adopt a procedure for identifying measures and proposed measures mandating health insurance coverage of services or payment for specified providers of services. The procedure must include solicitation of draft measures and proposals during the interim between legislative sessions from legislators and agencies with bill introduction privileges and must include deadlines for identification of the measures or proposals. The legislative council shall contract with a private entity, after receiving one or more recommendations from the insurance commissioner, to provide the legislative management the cost-benefit analysis required by this section. The insurance commissioner shall pay the cost of the contracted services to the entity providing the services. |SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act is effective May 1, 2021.

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Howard Anderson (R)*,  Dick Dever (R)*,  Judy Lee (R)*,  George Keiser (R),  Lisa Meier (R),  Robin Weisz (R), 

Signed by Governor 04/21 (on 04/22/2021)

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