E Creating a purchasing alliance stop-loss fund account in the general fund for use by the commissioner of human services to establish a stop-loss fund to reimburse health plan companies for claims paid for employees of certain employer members of qualifying purchasing alliances; prescribing the reimbursement procedure, specifying certain limits, requiring health plan company requests on a form to be prescribed by the commissioner and providing for calculation and distribution of the reimbursements, authorizing commissioner requests for necessary data, classifying the data and granting the commissioner certain duties delegation authority; requiring the commissioner of commerce in consultation with the office of rural health and the qualifying purchasing alliances to evaluate the effect of the fund in increasing the availability of employer subsidized health coverage for residents residing in geographic areas served by the qualifying purchasing alliances and report to the legislature by certain dates; sunset provision; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for deposit in the stop-loss fund account and to the commissioner of health for grants to organizations developing health care purchasing alliances, match requirement (mk, ja)