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House passes pilot requiring some mandates to apply first to state-funded PEHP for one year
Summary
House Bill 105 would apply any legislative health-insurance mandate first to the state-funded PEHP plan as a one-year pilot so the legislature can see fiscal and utilization effects before applying mandates statewide; the House passed the bill 48–26 and referred it to the Senate after floor amendments and extended questioning about scope and competitive effects.
Representative Rebecca Lockhart introduced House Bill 105 as a procedural safeguard: if the Legislature enacts an insurance mandate, it would apply to the state-funded Public Employee Health Program (PEHP) for one year before applying to the broader market so the body can measure actual fiscal impacts. Lockhart summarized the bill’s aim: "It says that if we are going to pass a mandate as a legislature,…
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