13.0966 Review of bills or amendments establishing health insurance mandates.
(1) Definition. In this section, “office” means the office of the commissioner of insurance.
(2) Report establishing health insurance mandates.
(a) Any bill that requires a report by the office under s. 601.423 shall have that requirement noted on its jacket when the jacket is prepared.
(b) When a bill that requires a report under s. 601.423 is introduced, the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the bill to the office. When an amendment that creates or alters a health insurance mandate requiring a report under s. 601.423 is offered, the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the amendment to the office. The office shall prepare the report or a written statement in accordance with s. 601.423. If the office prepares a written statement, the chairperson of a standing committee to which the bill has been referred, the presiding officer of either house of the legislature, either cochairperson of the joint committee on finance, or any other member of the legislature may request that the office prepare a report instead, in which case the office shall prepare a report.
(c) After receiving the report or written statement from the office under s. 601.423 (2), the chief clerk of the house in which the bill or amendment is introduced or offered shall ensure all of the following:
1. The report or written statement prepared under s. 601.423 is printed as an appendix to the bill and distributed in the same manner as amendments.
2. The report or written statement is distributed, and is made available to the public, before any vote is taken on the bill by either house of the legislature if the bill is not referred to a standing committee, or before any public hearing is held before any standing committee or, if no public hearing is held, before any vote is taken by the committee. No bill requiring a report under s. 601.423 may receive a hearing or be voted on by either house or by a standing committee and no amendment requiring a report under s. 601.423 may be adopted by either house or recommended by a standing committee before the report or statement on the bill or amendment is distributed under this subdivision.
History: 2015 a. 288; 2017 a. 239.
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