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Senate approves bill requiring fiscal accounting for new health-insurance mandates
Summary
The Utah Senate approved first-substitute SB138 to require that new state-level health-insurance mandates apply to state employees and that their fiscal impacts on public education and higher education be estimated and funded; the measure passed the Senate (21–8) and moves to the third-reading calendar.
Senators voted to advance first-substitute Senate Bill 138, a bill designed to make the fiscal impacts of future health-insurance mandates transparent and to require the state to bear associated costs for public employees.
Senator Scott Weiler, sponsor of the bill, told colleagues that SB138 would extend any mandate enacted after Jan. 1 of the session to state employees and ensure a fiscal note reflects the cost to public and higher education. He said the change is intended to protect small businesses and avoid offloading mandate costs onto schools and colleges without accounting for budget impacts.
The bill drew robust…
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