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H113 • 2025

Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Lambeth, Potts, White, Budd, Carney, Harrison, McNeely, Moss, Penny, Pickett, Price, Riddell, Strickland, Ward, Warren, Wheatley
Last action
2025-04-15
Official status
Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

H113-SMTR-16(e1)-v-2 (2025-04-15): Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

What This Bill Does

  • H113-SMTR-16(e1)-v-2 (2025-04-15): Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

Limits and Unknowns

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Filed

Plain English: 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 113: Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

  • 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 113: Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.
  • Committee: House Health.
  • If favorable, re -refer to Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Date: April 15, 2025 Introduced by: Reps.
  • Lambeth, Potts, White Prepared by: Jennifer Hillman Staff Attorney Analysis of: First Edition Kara McCraw Director *H113-SMTR-16(e1)-v-2* Legislative Analysis Division 919-733-2578 This bill analysis was prepared by the nonpartisan legislative staff for the use of legislators in their deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.

Bill History

  1. 2025-04-15 House

    Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-04-15 House

    Reptd Fav

  3. 2025-04-14 House

    Re-ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  4. 2025-04-14 House

    Withdrawn From Com

  5. 2025-02-13 House

    Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  6. 2025-02-13 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  7. 2025-02-12 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

H113-SMTR-16(e1)-v-2
(2025-04-15): Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 113

Short Title: Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Lambeth, Potts, Reeder, and White (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
February 13, 2025
*H113-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO CREATE A J OINT LEGISLATIVE COM MITTEE ON MEDICAID 2
SUSTAINABILITY. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. There is established the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid 5
Sustainability (Committee). 6
SECTION 2. The Committee consists of 12 members as follows: six senators are 7
appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Six representatives are appointed by the 8
Speaker of the House of Representatives. The President Pro Tempore of the Senate an d the 9
Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each appoint a cochair of the Committee from 10
among its membership. Vacancies on the Committee shall be filled by the appointing authority. 11
SECTION 3. The purpose of the Committee is to consider various w ays in which 12
the existing North Carolina Medicaid program could be modified to respond to any decreases in 13
federal support for the Medicaid program in order to maintain current State funding levels. These 14
modifications may include: 15
(1) Reduction or elimination of optional services. 16
(2) Reduction or elimination of optional eligibility groups. 17
(3) Additional or increased provider assessments. 18
(4) Reduction of reimbursement rates. 19
(5) Strategies for achieving managed care efficiencies. 20
(6) Any other opportunities for cost-savings. 21
SECTION 4. The Committee shall meet upon the call of its cochairs. A quorum of 22
the Committee is a majority of its members. No action may be taken except by a majority vote 23
at a meeting at which a quorum is present. The Committee, whi le in discharge of its official 24
duties, may exercise all powers provided under the provisions of G.S. 120-19 and G.S. 120-19.1 25
through G.S. 120-19.4, including the power to request all officers, agents, agencies, and 26
departments of the State to provide any information, data, or documents within their possession, 27
ascertainable from their records, or otherwise available to them, and the power to subpoena 28
witnesses. 29
SECTION 5. The Legislative Services Officer shall assign professional and clerical 30
staff to assist the Committee in its work. The Director of Legislative Assistants of the House of 31
Representatives and the Director of Legislative Assistants of the Senate shall assign clerical 32
support staff to the Committee. 33
SECTION 6. Members of the Committee shall receive per diem, subsistence, and 34
travel allowance as provided in G.S. 120-3.1, 138-5, and 138-6, as appropriate. Any expenses of 35
General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
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the Committee shall be considered expenses incurred for the joint operation of the General 1
Assembly. 2
SECTION 7. The Committee shall submit a final report on the results of its study, 3
including any proposed legislation, to the General Assembly no later than April 30, 2026. The 4
Committee shall terminate on April 30, 2026, or upon the filing of its final report, whichever 5
occurs first. 6
SECTION 8. This act is effective when it becomes law. 7