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Senator Kaler proposes refundable tax credit to offset employer costs from health-insurance mandates
Summary
Senate Bill 129 would create a refundable tax credit equal to 1.3% of employers' health-care premiums to offset costs imposed by legislative health-insurance mandates; sponsor said the measure fulfills a promise in prior legislation that enacted mandated autism coverage and a moratorium on new mandates.
Sen. Kaler presented Senate Bill 129 to the Ohio Senate Ways and Means Committee, proposing a refundable tax credit equal to 1.3% of an employer’s cost for health-insurance premiums to offset the cost of legislative health-insurance mandates.
Kaler said the bill fulfills language included in prior enactments (House Bill 463 as amended during a prior General Assembly) that implemented a two-year moratorium on new health mandates and directed study of a…
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