HB1044ham002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Mary E. Flowers

Filed: 4/12/2005

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1044

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1044 by replacing lines 21 through 30 on page 1 and all of page 2 with the following:

"Section 15. Reporting of employer-provided health insurance information.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the Department of Public Aid or its successor agency, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services and the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, shall annually prepare a public health access program beneficiary employer report to be submitted to the General Assembly. For the purposes of this Section, a "public health access program beneficiary" means a person who receives medical assistance under Title XIX or XXI of the federal Social Security Act.

Subject to federal approval, the report shall provide the following information for each employer who has more than 100 employees and 50 or more public health access beneficiaries:

(1) The name and address of the qualified employer.

(2) The number of public health access program beneficiaries.

(3) The number of public health access program beneficiaries who are spouses or dependents of employees of the employer.

(4) Information on whether the employer offers health insurance benefits to employees and their dependents.

(5) Information on whether the employer receives health insurance benefits through the company.

(6) Whether an employer offers health insurance benefits, and, if so, information on the level of premium subsidies for such health insurance.

(7) The cost to the State of Illinois of providing public health access program benefits for the employer's employees and enrolled dependents.

(b) The report shall not include the names of any individual public health access program beneficiary and shall be subject to privacy standard both in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and in Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act.

(c) The first report shall be submitted on or before October 1, 2006, and subsequent reports shall be submitted on or before that date each year thereafter.".