1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health insurance; eliminating prohibition on for-profit entities 
1.3 	participating in certain markets;amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 62D.04, 
1.4 	subdivision 5; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 43A.24, subdivision 4.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 62D.04, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 5.Participation; government programs. Health maintenance organizations that 
1.8 	are a nonprofit corporation organized under chapter 317A or a local governmental unit shall, 
1.9 	as a condition of receiving and retaining a certificate of authority, participate in the medical 
1.10 	assistance and MinnesotaCare programs. A health maintenance organization governed by 
1.11 	this subdivision is required to submit proposals in good faith that meet the requirements of 
1.12 	the request for proposal provided that the requirements can be reasonably met by a health 
1.13 	maintenance organization to serve individuals eligible for the above programs in a geographic 
1.14 	region of the state if, at the time of publication of a request for proposal, the percentage of 
1.15 	recipients in the public programs in the region who are enrolled in the health maintenance 
1.16 	organization is less than the health maintenance organization's percentage of the total number 
1.17 	of individuals enrolled in health maintenance organizations in the same region. Geographic 
1.18 	regions shall be defined by the commissioner of human services in the request for proposals.

1.19 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

1.20 	Sec. 2. REPEALER.
 1.21 	Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 43A.24, subdivision 4, is repealed.

1.22 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

APPENDIX 

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 25-04861 

43A.24 ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE PAID INSURANCE AND BENEFITS.Subd. 4.For-profit health maintenance organizations prohibited.  
The commissioner must ensure that state paid hospital, medical, and dental benefits are not provided to eligible employees by a health maintenance organization which is not a nonprofit corporation organized under chapter 317A or a local governmental unit, as defined in section 62D.02.