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MN HF2339
Bill
Status
2/16/2012
Primary Sponsor
Steve Gottwalt
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AI Summary
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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