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Conference committee adopts streamlined PERS amendment, shifts cost-benefit review until after two-year pilot
Summary
A conference committee adopted an amendment that narrows earlier language on insurance mandates, preserves a two-year PERS pilot, removes the PERS boardas the bill sponsor after the pilot, and requires a cost-benefit analysis only if a rollout bill is introduced following the pilot.
A conference committee of House and Senate conferees adopted an amendment on an insurance-mandate bill that narrows prior language and reorders the statutory rollout process for any measure determined to be an insurance mandate.
Rebecca Frikey, executive director of the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), told the committee she reviewed the amendment drafted by Legislative Council and described how the revised text differs from the Senate's earlier amendment. "At this stage in the game, when there's amendments, they have to go back to the original chamber in grossed version," Frikey said, explaining why the draft looks different from the Senate-edited version.
The amendment keeps a two-year PERS pilot for measures found to be insurance mandates but removes a…
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