First Substitute H.B. 228

Representative Rebecca D. Lockhart proposes to substitute the following bill:

1 HEALTH INSURANCE PROVISIONS -
2 INTERIM REVIEW
3 2000 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Rebecca D. Lockhart
6 AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE; REQUIRING THE BUSINESS, LABOR, AND
7 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INTERIM COMMITTEE AND THE HEALTH AND HUMAN
8 SERVICES INTERIM COMMITTEE TO IDENTIFY AND REVIEW CERTAIN HEALTH
9 INSURANCE PROVISIONS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE PROVISIONS SHOULD BE
10 CONTINUED, MODIFIED, OR REPEALED.
11 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
12 AMENDS:
13 36-12-5, as last amended by Chapter 226, Laws of Utah 1998
14 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
15 Section 1. Section 36-12-5 is amended to read:
16 36-12-5. Duties of interim committees.
17 (1) It is the duty of each interim committee:
18 (a) to receive study assignments by resolution from the appropriate house of the
19 Legislature;
20 (b) to receive study assignments from its corresponding Senate or House Management
21 Committee, created under Section 36-12-6 ;
22 (c) to place matters on its study agenda upon notification to its Senate or House
23 Management Committee. If a study request has not been disapproved by the appropriate
24 management committee within 30 days of receipt of the request, the interim committee may
25 proceed with the requested study;

26 (d) to request research reports from the professional legislative staff pertaining to the
27 committee's agenda of study;
28 (e) to investigate and study possibilities for improvement in government services within
29 its subject area;
30 (f) to accept reports from the professional legislative staff and make recommendations for
31 legislative action with respect to such reports; and
32 (g) to prepare and recommend to the Legislature a legislative program in response to the
33 committee's study agenda.
34 (2) (a) In addition to the duties established pursuant to Subsection (1), the Business, Labor,
35 and Economic Development Interim Committee and the Health and Human Services Interim
36 Committee shall:
37 (i) identify provisions in Title 31A that impose a benefit design requirement on health
38 insurers that have been in effect for five or more years and have not been reviewed during the
39 previous 10 years; and
40 (ii) review the provisions, subject to the approval of the corresponding Senate or House
41 Management Committee which may divide the provisions between the committees, for the purpose
42 of determining whether the provisions should be continued, modified, or repealed.
43 (b) A review shall include:
44 (i) the estimated fiscal impact of the provision on state and private health insurance;
45 (ii) the purpose and effectiveness of the provision; and
46 (iii) the estimated amount, if any, of the base insurance premium that is attributable to the
47 provision.
48 (c) Each provision in effect for five or more years as of July 1, 2000, shall be reviewed
49 before November 30, 2005.
50 [(2)] (3) Reports and recommendations of the interim committees shall be completed and
51 made public prior to any legislative session at which the reports and recommendations are
52 submitted. A copy of the reports and recommendations shall be mailed to each member or
53 member-elect of the Legislature, to each elective state officer, and to the state library.