LRB-0435/P1
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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hutter, BB0153 - Repeal HIRSP appropriations
For 2015-2017 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Insurance
The Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan (HIRSP), which provided health insurance coverage to persons covered under Medicare because they were disabled, persons who tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), persons who were refused coverage, or coverage at an affordable price, in the private health insurance market because of their mental or physical health condition, and persons (called "eligible individuals" in the statutes) who did not have health insurance coverage, but who had been covered under certain types of health insurance coverage (creditable coverage) for at least 18 months in the past, was dissolved. Coverage under HIRSP was finally terminated for all individuals on March 31, 2014. Two appropriations to OCI provide funding for the affairs of HIRSP and winding up the affairs of HIRSP. This bill repeals those two appropriations.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.145 (5) of the statutes is repealed.
Section
2. 895.514 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
895.514
(3) (b) All of the expenses incurred by the authority, or the commissioner, or any agent, employee, or representative of the commissioner, in exercising its duties and powers under ch. 149, 2011 stats., under
2013 Wisconsin Act 20, section
9122 (1L), or under
2013 Wisconsin Act 116, section
32 (1) (b), shall be payable only from funds of the authority
or from the appropriation under s. 20.145 (5) (g) or (k), or from any combination of those payment sources.
Section 9422.
Effective dates; Insurance.
(1) Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan appropriations. The treatment of sections 20.145 (5) and 895.514 (3) (b) of the statutes takes effect on January 1, 2016.
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