MO HB878

Requires the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan to file any emergency rule implementing health care benefit changes for a January 1st plan year no later than December 1st of the preceding year

Invalidates emergency rules for plan year changes unless a proposed rule or amendment was filed by August 1st prior to the emergency rule's intended January 1st effective date

Subjects all board rulemaking authority to compliance with Chapter 536 (Missouri's Administrative Procedure Act) and legislative review provisions

Includes a nonseverability clause voiding the rulemaking authority if legislative powers to review, delay, or annul rules are found unconstitutional

Contains an emergency clause with an effective date of July 1, 2011, or upon passage, citing the need for stability in state health plan regulation