Bill Text: CT HB06623 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Establishing A Working Group To Study Health Insurance Premium Rate Increases And Develop Recommendations To Mitigate Such Increases.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-01 - File Number 820 [HB06623 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB06623-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 6623
January Session, 2017		LCO No. 4857
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Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
(INS)

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM RATE INCREASES AND DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS TO MITIGATE SUCH INCREASES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) There is established a working group to study health insurance premium rate increases in this state and develop recommendations to mitigate such increases.

(b) The working group shall consist of the following members:

(1) The chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to insurance;

(2) Two appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives;

(3) Two appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate;

(4) One appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives;

(5) One appointed by the majority leader of the Senate;

(6) One appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; and

(7) One appointed by the minority leader of the Senate.

(c) Any member of the working group appointed under subsection (b) of this section may be a member of the General Assembly.

(d) All appointments to the working group shall be made not later than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority.

(e) The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the working group from among the members of the working group. Such chairpersons shall schedule the first meeting of the working group, which shall be held not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section.

(f) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to insurance shall serve as administrative staff of the working group.

(g) Not later than January 1, 2018, the working group shall submit a report on its recommendations to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to insurance, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes. The working group shall terminate on the date it submits such report or January 1, 2018, whichever is later.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

INS

Joint Favorable