Social and financial impact reports

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law defines a health insurance mandate as a statute that requires an insurance policy to do any of four things: 1) permit a person to obtain treatment or services from a particular type of health care provider; 2) provide coverage for the treatment of a particular disease or condition; 3) provide coverage of a particular type of health care treatment or service, including particular drugs, supplies, or equipment; and 4) provide coverage for a particular type of person based on the person's relationship to the insured. Current law requires that, if any bill contains a health insurance mandate affecting an insurance policy, plan, or contract, the Commissioner of Insurance (commissioner) must submit to the presiding officer of the house in which the bill is introduced a report on the social and financial impact of the mandate. Current law provides that the presiding officer may require that the report be printed and distributed as are amendments, but current law does not specify a time by which the report must be submitted.

This bill requires that the commissioner submit a report if any amendment, as well as any bill, contains a health insurance mandate. The commissioner may, however, decide not to prepare a report and submit a written statement that explains the reason for not preparing a report. In that case, the chairperson of a committee to which the bill has been referred, the presiding officer of either house, or any other member of the legislature may request that the commissioner submit a report instead. The report or statement is printed as an appendix to the bill or amendment and distributed to the members of the legislature, and made available to the public, before any public hearing is held on the bill or amendment by a committee or before any vote is taken on the bill or amendment by either house of the legislature.

Who's behind it

7 lawmakers are its authors⁠. All 7 are Republicans.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.