2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 57,
TO ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO 2001 SENATE BILL 55
June 29, 2001 - Offered by Representatives Lassa and
Miller.
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21. Page 258, line 3: increase the dollar amount for fiscal year 2001-02 by
3$264,800 to increase the authorized FTE positions for the department of employee
4trust funds by 3.5 GPR positions to perform services relating to the purpose for which
5the appropriation is made.
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20.515
(2) (c)
Payment of certain costs. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule
10for the payment of legal and actuarial services and for the marketing and promotion
11of the private employer health care coverage program under subch. X of ch. 40. No
1moneys may be expended from this appropriation until the condition under s. 40.98
2(2) (h) 1. is satisfied.
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20.515
(2) (g)
Private employer health care coverage plan. All moneys received
5under subch. X of ch. 40 from employers who elect to participate in the private
6employer health care coverage program under subch. X of ch. 40, for the costs of
7designing, marketing and contracting for or providing administrative services for
8the program
and for lapsing money to the general fund as required under s. 40.98 (2)
9(h) 2.".
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40.98
(2) (a) 3. The
administrator selected under subd. 2., or the department
13if no administrator has been selected under subd. 2., shall enter into contracts with
14insurers who are to provide health care coverage under the health care coverage
15program.
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40.98
(2) (a) 4. The department
or the administrator selected under subd. 2. 18shall solicit and accept bids and shall enter into a contract for marketing the health
19care coverage program.
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40.98
(2) (a) 5. The department
or the administrator selected under subd. 2. 22shall maintain a toll-free telephone number to provide information on the health
23care coverage program.
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140.98
(2) (d) All insurance rates for health care coverage under the program
2shall be
published annually in a single publication that is made available to
3employers and employees
in a manner determined by the board. The rates may be
4listed by county or by any other regional factor that the board considers appropriate.
5Annually, the board shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committees
6under s. 13.172 (3) specifying the average insurance rate for health care coverage
7under the program by county or by any other regional factor the board considers
8appropriate.
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40.98
(2) (h) 1. Before expending any moneys from the appropriation under s.
1120.515 (2) (c), the department shall seek funding from the federal government,
12non-governmental organizations, and individuals for the payment of legal and
13actuarial services and for the marketing and promotion of the health care coverage
14program.
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2. If the department expends any money from the appropriation under s. 20.515
16(2) (c), the department shall lapse from the appropriation under s. 20.515 (2) (g) to
17the general fund an amount equal to the amount expended from the appropriation
18under s. 20.515 (2) (c). The department shall make this lapse no later than June 30,
192007.
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40.98
(3) (a) Offer health care coverage under one or more plans to all of its
22permanent employees who have a normal work week of 30 or more hours and
, if
23permitted by any plan offered by an insurer under the health care coverage program, 24may offer health care coverage under
one or more plans
such a plan to any of its other
25employees.
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40.98
(3) (c) Pay for each employee at least 50%
but not more than 100% of the
3lowest premium rate that would be of the lowest premium rate for single coverage
4that is available to the employer for that employee's coverage under the health care
5coverage program.
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40.98
(6) (b) An insurance agent may not sell any health care coverage under
8the health care coverage program on behalf of an insurer unless he or she is
employed
9by the insurer or has a contract with the insurer to sell the health care coverage on
10behalf of listed by the insurer
under s. 628.11.
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40.98
(6) (d) The board may establish training and certification requirements
13that an insurance agent must satisfy, in addition to any requirements under s. 628.04
14(3), to sell health care coverage under the health care coverage program.".
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635.05
(1) Establishing restrictions on premium rates that a small employer
19insurer may charge a small employer such that the premium rates charged to small
20employers with similar case characteristics for the same or similar benefit design
21characteristics
do not vary from the midpoint rate for those small employers by more
22than 35% of that midpoint rate are the same.".
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1"
(2g)
Small employer insurance premium rates. The treatment of sections
2635.02 (4m) and 635.05 (1) of the statutes first applies to health insurance policies
3or plans that are issued or renewed on January 1, 2002.".
