HF 2576

as introduced - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to insurance; the Minnesota comprehensive 
  1.3             health association; changing eligibility requirements; 
  1.4             appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, 
  1.5             sections 62E.14, subdivision 1; and 297.13, 
  1.6             subdivision 1. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 62E.14, 
  1.9   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subdivision 1.  [CERTIFICATE, CONTENTS.] The comprehensive 
  1.11  health insurance plan shall be open for enrollment by eligible 
  1.12  persons.  An eligible person shall enroll by submission of a 
  1.13  certificate of eligibility to the writing carrier.  The 
  1.14  certificate shall provide the following: 
  1.15     (a) Name, address, age, list of residences for the 
  1.16  immediately preceding six months and length of time at current 
  1.17  residence of the applicant; 
  1.18     (b) Name, address, and age of spouse and children if any, 
  1.19  if they are to be insured; 
  1.20     (c) Evidence of rejection, a requirement of restrictive 
  1.21  riders, a rate up, or a preexisting conditions limitation on a 
  1.22  qualified plan, the effect of which is to substantially reduce 
  1.23  coverage from that received by a person considered a standard 
  1.24  risk, by at least one association member within six months of 
  1.25  the date of the certificate, or other eligibility requirements 
  1.26  adopted by rule by the commissioner which are not inconsistent 
  2.1   with this chapter and which evidence that a person is unable to 
  2.2   obtain coverage substantially similar to that which may be 
  2.3   obtained by a person who is considered a standard risk; 
  2.4      (d) If the applicant has been terminated from individual 
  2.5   health coverage which does not provide replacement coverage, 
  2.6   evidence that no replacement coverage that meets the 
  2.7   requirements of section 62D.121 was offered, and evidence of 
  2.8   termination of individual health coverage by an insurer, 
  2.9   nonprofit health service plan corporation, or health maintenance 
  2.10  organization provided that the contract or policy has been 
  2.11  terminated for reasons other than (1) failure to pay the charge 
  2.12  for health care coverage; (2) failure to make copayments 
  2.13  required by the health care plan; (3) enrollee moving out of the 
  2.14  area served; or (4) a materially false statement or 
  2.15  misrepresentation by the enrollee in the application for 
  2.16  membership; and 
  2.17     (e) A designation of the coverage desired. 
  2.18     Subd. 1a.  [ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS.] (a) An eligible 
  2.19  person may not purchase more than one policy from the state plan.
  2.20     (b) Upon ceasing to be a resident of Minnesota a person is 
  2.21  no longer eligible to purchase or renew coverage under the state 
  2.22  plan. 
  2.23     (c) No person is eligible for coverage under the 
  2.24  comprehensive health insurance plan for whom a premium, 
  2.25  deductible, or coinsurance amount is paid or reimbursed by the 
  2.26  federal government, a state, or any political subdivision of a 
  2.27  state.  This paragraph does not apply to persons enrolled in the 
  2.28  comprehensive health insurance plan as of June 30, 1997. 
  2.29     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 297.13, 
  2.30  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  2.31     Subdivision 1.  [CIGARETTE TAX APPORTIONMENT.] Revenues 
  2.32  received from taxes, penalties, and interest under sections 
  2.33  297.01 to 297.13 and from license fees and miscellaneous sources 
  2.34  of revenue shall be deposited by the commissioner of revenue in 
  2.35  the state treasury and credited as follows:  
  2.36     (a) first to the general obligation special tax bond debt 
  3.1   service account in each fiscal year the amount required to 
  3.2   increase the balance on hand in the account on each December 1 
  3.3   to an amount equal to the full amount of principal and interest 
  3.4   to come due on all outstanding bonds whose debt service is 
  3.5   payable primarily from the proceeds of the tax to and including 
  3.6   the second following July 1; and 
  3.7      (b) after the requirements of paragraph (a) have been met: 
  3.8      (1) the revenue produced by one mill of the tax on 
  3.9   cigarettes weighing not more than three pounds a thousand and 
  3.10  two mills of the tax on cigarettes weighing more than three 
  3.11  pounds a thousand must be credited to the Minnesota future 
  3.12  resources fund; 
  3.13     (2) the revenue produced by 2.5 mills of the tax on 
  3.14  cigarettes weighing not more than three pounds a thousand and 
  3.15  five mills of the tax on cigarettes weighing more than three 
  3.16  pounds a thousand must be credited to the general fund and is 
  3.17  annually appropriated to the commissioner of commerce for 
  3.18  disbursement to the Minnesota comprehensive health association. 
  3.19     (3) the balance of the revenues derived from taxes, 
  3.20  penalties, and interest under sections 297.01 to 297.13 and from 
  3.21  license fees and miscellaneous sources of revenue shall be 
  3.22  credited to the general fund. 
  3.23     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  3.24     Section 1 is effective July 1, 1997.  Section 2 is 
  3.25  effective July 1, 1996.