hf4 FIRST ENGROSSMENT MinnesotaCare premium and provider taxes repealed, pass-through consumer savings required, tobacco settlement proceeds allocated, financial management of MinnesotaCare provided, and health care access fund contingent repealer. ARTICLE 1 USE OF TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROCEEDS Section 1: Establishes reduced health plan premium rates as a result of the repeal of MinnesotaCare provider taxes and the repeal of a one-percent premium tax; documenting compliance and enforcement regulations provided. Sec. 2: Use of tobacco settlement proceeds outlined and defined. Sec. 3: MinnesotaCare fund and expenditure spending regulations provided. Sec. 4: Tax exemption provided for premiums paid to health maintenance organizations (HMO), nonprofit health service plan corporations, and community integrated service networks. Sec. 5: Repeals certain Minnesota Statutes relating to health care access fund; contingent effective date provided. Sec. 6: Repeals MinnesotaCare provider tax, nonprofit health plan company premium tax, and federal contingency reserve as defined in Minnesota Statutes.ARTICLE 2 CONFORMING CHANGES Sec.1: Amends definitions in Minnesota Statutes 2000, section J.041, to read "Minnesota Statutes 2000." Sec. 2: "Staff model health plan company" definition modified. Sec. 3: Removes the board assisting commissioner of health in data collection activities from responsibilities relating to commissioner of revenue. Sec. 4: Removes "intentional failure to provide the commissioner of revenue with data on gross revenue" and "intentional failure to pay the health care provider tax" as grounds for disciplinary action. Sec. 5: Strikes sections 295.50 to 295.29 from the Minnesota tax laws. Sec. 6: Amends Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 270B.14, to read "Minnesota Statutes 2000." Sec. 7: Repealer. Sec.8: Effective date for sections 1 to 7 defined as January 1, 2002.