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Lawmaker seeks to repeal PERS-era insurance-mandate process; PERS urges retention or amendment
Summary
Representative Weiss told the committee House Bill 1248 seeks to repeal a statutory process governing insurance mandates and a PERS pilot-review requirement; the Public Employees Retirement System and insurers warned the changes would hamper timely, independent fiscal and technical analysis of bills affecting state health plans.
Representative Robin Weiss told the House Industry, Business and Labor Committee that House Bill 1248 was introduced to repeal section 540328 (as cited in testimony) and to remove procedural requirements that have, in his view, made the insurance-mandate review process cumbersome. Weiss said the statute’s original purpose was to require a cost-benefit analysis before a committee took up an insurance-mandate bill and later added steps—including PERS review and a requirement that PERS request introduction of carryover legislation—that have created procedural conflict and delay.
“This process isn’t really working,” Weiss told the committee, arguing the statute’s steps can produce contradictory timing and that PERS should not be required to introduce legislation on mandated coverage. He suggested, alternatively, extending the PERS review period to a full biennium…
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