Healthy frontiers-continuation-2.

WORKING DRAFT
2012
STATE OF
WYOMING
12LSO-0323

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0091

Healthy frontiers-continuation-2.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Scott and Representative(s) Harvey

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to healthy frontiers health care reform demonstration project; modifying provisions for the operation and evaluation of the project; modifying reporting dates and report requirements; modifying the sunset date; modifying appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 26
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43
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206(g) and (h) and 26
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43
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207 are amended to read:

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43
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206.

Evaluation.

(g)

The department of health shall provide to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee

and the governor an interim evaluation report by November 15,
2012

2013
and a final evaluation report by December 31,
201
4
2015
. To improve the statistical validity of the report, no new enrollment in the project shall be permitted after July 1, 2014. The report shall include any recommendations on whether the demonstration project should be discontinued, expanded to a larger population, expanded to obtain more statistically valid results or continued for a longer time with a stable enrollment to obtain more valid results. Unless the report recommends abandonment of the project, it shall include any recommendations on program alterations needed to achieve the objectives of the demonstration project as expressed in the evaluation criteria of subsection (b) of this section.

(h)

The department of health, to the maximum extent possible, shall include in the interim report required by subsection (g) of this section information necessary for the legislature to decide during its
2013 general

2014 budget
session whether the state should apply for a Medicaid waiver
effective January 1, 2014 or later

based on the healthy frontiers pilot project benefit design and covering
some of the existing Medicaid population,

all or
some of the population scheduled to become Medicaid eligible on January 1, 2014
, or both
.

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43
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207.

Sunset.

W.S. 26
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43
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201 through 26
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43
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206 are repealed effective
December 31, 2015

March 31, 2016
and all participants shall be disenrolled effective July 1, 2015. The board shall use the period from April 1, 2015 to
December 31, 2015

March 31, 2016

to fully discharge the affairs of the demonstration project.

Section 2.

2010 Wyoming
Session
Laws, Chapter 96, Section 3(a) and (b)
, as amended by 2011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 134, Section 2
is amended to read:

Section 3.

(a)

There is appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) from the tobacco settlement trust income account to the department of health. This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30,
2011

2013
. This
appropriation shall only be expended for the purpose of collecting and evaluating data related to the health care reform demonstration project. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30,
2012

2013
. This appropriation shall not be included in the department's 2013-2014 standard biennial budget request.

(b)

There is appropriated seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000.00) from the tobacco settlement

trust income account to the insurance department. This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the
e
ffective date of this act and ending June 30,
201
2

2013
. This appropriation shall only be expended for the purpose of contracting with the board of directors of the Wyoming health insurance pool to implement the health care reform demonstration project. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this appropriation shall not be transferred
or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30,
2012

2013
. This appropriation shall not be included in the department's 2013-2014
or 2015-2016

standard biennial budget request.

Section
3
.

2011 Wyoming Laws, Chapter 134, Section 3(b), is amended to read:

Section 3.

(b)

There is appropriated one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) from the general fund to the insurance department. This appropriation shall be for the period

beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30,
2012

201
3
. This appropriation shall only be expended for the purpose of contracting with the board of directors of the Wyoming health insurance pool to implement the health care reform demonstration project. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other
purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on July 1,
2012

201
3
. This appropriation shall not be included in the department's 2013-2014 standard budget request.

Section
4
.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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