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2009 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1600 (Conference Report)

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State Employee Health Insurance Program (language only)

Item 472 #1c

Item 472 #1c

Central Appropriations
Central Appropriations

Language
Page 517, strike lines 44 through 47, and insert:
"4.  Notwithstanding any provision of law, effective July 1, 2009, coverage for lap band and gastric bypass surgery under the state employee health insurance program shall be conditional on the successful participation in a progressive weight management program to be developed by the Department of Human Resource Management."


Explanation
(This amendment strikes language included in the introduced budget eliminating coverage for lap band and gastric bypass surgery under the state employee health program. The replacement language makes coverage for these procedures contingent on the beneficiary completing a weight management program. It is the intention of the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees to communicate to the Governor the assumptions for benefit plan and cost sharing changes for the health care program assumed in this Act for fiscal year 2010.)