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ID H0555
Bill
Status
2/27/2012
Primary Sponsor
State Affairs Committee
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AI Summary
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Creates new section 39-9005 establishing legislative findings that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) infringes on state powers and threatens Idaho's health care reform progress through individual and employer mandates and government-run insurance programs.
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Requires Idaho departments and agencies to report to the Special Oversight Committee on Health Care Reform before implementing any federal health care reform passed after March 1, 2010, including information on statutory requirements, state waiver options, implementation details, affected populations, costs, and non-compliance consequences.
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Renames and expands the Special Oversight Committee on Health Care Reform to provide legislative oversight and policy direction on federal health care initiatives, including the PPACA, and to recommend legislation to germane committees regarding federal health care reform implementation.
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Defines "federal health care reform" to include provisions mandating individual health insurance purchases, small employer coverage requirements, employer penalties, Medicaid/CHIP eligibility expansions, new insurance coverage mandates, and government-run public insurance programs.
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Requires the directors of the departments of insurance and health and welfare to make periodic reports to the oversight committee regarding federal health care initiatives, laws, or regulations in effect or potentially in effect in Idaho.
Legislative Description
Adds to and amends existing law relating to oversight of federal health care reform to provide legislative findings and to provide oversight of federal health care reform, to revise the name of a certain committee, to revise provisions relating to meetings of the special oversight committee on health care reform, to revise the duties of such committee and to require certain reports.
FEDERAL HEALTH CARE REFORM
Last Action
to Com/HuRes
2/28/2012