ID H0564

Establishes the "Corporate Welfare and Low Wage Disclosure Act" to require annual reports identifying employers with highest numbers of employees receiving public benefits.

Department of Health and Welfare must file report by February 1 each year listing the 50 employers with 50+ employees having the most beneficiaries in Medicaid, SCHIP, SNAP, EBT, WIC, and TAFI programs.

Report must include employer name and address, size, number of employee beneficiaries, number of dependent beneficiaries, health benefit offerings, cost to state, and whether health benefits were offered to beneficiary employees.

Report must be filed with legislature and legislative committees, posted on department website, and must comply with privacy standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

Report shall not include names of individual beneficiaries and department may establish interagency agreements to collect necessary information including through health insurance responsibility disclosure forms.