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Committee hears bill to change cost-benefit process for insurance mandates; business and insurers oppose removing PERS pilot
Summary
Representative Robin Weisz told the Senate Human Services Committee that House Bill 1248 would change how the state studies and moves health insurance mandates into law, extending PERS pilot timeframes and altering who is required to carry forward pilot results into permanent law.
Representative Robin Weisz (District 14) told the Senate Human Services Committee that House Bill 1248 is intended to streamline and clarify the state’s handling of health insurance mandates and their associated cost-benefit analyses. The bill would repeal a section of existing law and extend the Public Employees Retirement System’s (PERS) pilot review period to allow more time — moving some pilot data collection from one biennium to two — and would remove the current requirement that a PERS pilot be used before a mandate is applied to the commercial market in some cases.
“We initially passed the law that said they just require that prior to if the committee determines it's an insurance mandate, these have a cost benefit analysis,”…
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