SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS/CS/HB 591, 2nd Eng.

    Amendment No. ___

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11  Senator King moved the following substitute for amendment to

12  amendment (020136):

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14         Senate Amendment 

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16            page 133, line 10, delete those lines

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19         2.  Prescribe the format, content, and timing of

20  information that is to be submitted to the conference and used

21  by the conference in its assessment of proposed mandated

22  benefits and providers. Such format, content, and timing

23  requirements are binding upon all parties submitting

24  information for the conference to use in its assessment of

25  proposed mandated benefits and providers.

26         3.  Provide assessments of proposed mandated benefits

27  and providers and other studies of mandated benefits and

28  provider issues as requested by the Legislature or the

29  Governor. When a legislative measure containing a mandated

30  health insurance benefit or provider is proposed, the standing

31  committee of the Legislature which has jurisdiction over the

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS/CS/HB 591, 2nd Eng.

    Amendment No. ___





  1  proposal shall request that the conference prepare and forward

  2  to the Governor and the Legislature a study that provides, for

  3  each measure, a cost-benefit analysis that assesses the social

  4  and financial impact and the medical efficacy according to

  5  prevailing medical standards of the proposed mandate. The

  6  conference has 12 months after the committee makes its request

  7  in which to complete and submit the conference's report. The

  8  standing committee may not consider such a proposed

  9  legislative measure until 12 months after it has requested the

10  report and has received the conference's report on the

11  measure.

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