Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Business and Labor Committee on June 30, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.
2011 Regular Session
House Bill 3293
Creates Local Government Benefit Board.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Creates Local Government Benefit Board. Requires Governor to appoint members of board for four-year terms. Directs board to contract for health benefit plans for officials, officers and employees of local governments. Requires board to adopt rules. Permits payroll officers to deduct amounts for benefit plans from eligible enrollee's wages. Creates Local Government Benefit Account and Local Government Benefit Board Revolving Fund. Requires amount not to exceed two percent of monthly employer and eligible enrollee contributions for benefit plans to be deposited in Local Government Benefit Account. Appropriates to board moneys from account and fund to cover administrative expenses. Prohibits local governments, on and after October 1, 2012, from offering health benefit plans other than health benefit plans provided by board. Provides exceptions. Requires board, before October 1, 2012, to enter into contracts for health benefit plans. Requires board to offer range of health benefit plan designs sufficient to ensure that, when health benefit plans are first provided to local government, local government and eligible enrollees can choose health benefit plans that are comparable in design to, and are not more expensive than, health benefit plans provided by local government immediately before purchase of health benefit plans provided by board. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
February 16 to June 30, 2011, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action3 actions on 3 days
In the House of RepresentativesFeb 16 to Jun 30 · stopped134 days
Waiting for a committeeFeb 16 to Feb 237 days
Business and LaborFeb 23 to Jun 30 · stopped127 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Feb 16 – Jun 30
- Feb 16Introduced
- Feb 23Sent to Business and Labor
- Jun 30Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published
- Feb 16First reading. Referred to the desks of the Co-Speakers.House of Representatives
- Feb 23Referred to Business and Labor.House of Representatives
- Jun 30In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives