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MN HF2339

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/16/2012

Primary Sponsor

Steve Gottwalt

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Origin

House of Representatives

87th Legislature 2011-2012

AI Summary

  • Creates a Health Care Compact (Minnesota Statutes, chapter 143) that allows member states to regulate health care within their borders and suspend conflicting federal laws, rules, and regulations.

  • Establishes a member state base funding level equal to total federal health care spending in that state during federal fiscal year 2010, with Minnesota's preliminary estimate set at $13,348,000,000.

  • Guarantees each member state receives federal funds up to its current year funding level (calculated by adjusting base funding for population and inflation changes) as mandatory spending not subject to annual appropriation.

  • Creates the Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission composed of up to two representatives per member state to study health care regulation issues and make nonbinding recommendations to state legislatures, while collecting and sharing health care data and pricing information.

  • Becomes effective upon adoption by at least two member states and consent of the United States Congress; member states may withdraw with six months' notice to other member states.

Legislative Description

Health care compact created.

Last Action

HF indefinitely postponed

4/20/2012

Committee Referrals

Government Operations and Elections3/14/2012
Health and Human Services Reform2/16/2012

Full Bill Text

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