2025 bills / S.B. 256
S.B. 256 General Government and Appropriations Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill repeals a rural health care facilities account and sends money to the State Tax Commission to pass on to certain rural counties and cities for health care improvements. It also requires the insurance commissioner to update the state's essential health benefits plan, lets the Department of Government Operations run as an internal service fund agency, and lets internal service fund agencies propose pay increases to match state employees.
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Official description
- repeals the Rural Health Care Facilities restricted account
- appropriates money to the State Tax Commission (tax commission) for distribution to certain counties and municipalities to improve the delivery of health care in rural areas of the state
- requires the insurance commissioner to update the state's essential health benefits plan with benefits mandated since January 1, 2012
- allows the insurance commissioner to update the plan described above to incorporate federally mandated benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- repeals the tax commission's reporting requirements related to the tax commission's collection of the beer excise tax
- authorizes the Labor Commission (commission) to use certain restricted account funds to pay the salary and benefits of a compliance officer for the commission's Division of Occupational Safety and Health
- grants the Department of Government Operations (department) the authority to operate the department as an internal service fund agency to provide certain government-related services
- establishes a process for an internal service fund agency to compensate the agency's employees at a rate that is equivalent to state agency employees by submitting a proposed increased rate schedule to the rate committee after the annual legislative session
- requires the rate committee to convene a meeting within 30 days of receiving the rate schedule described above to review and approve or reject the increased rate schedule
- repeals an outdated reference to the former Department of Administrative Services
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 256 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 256 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 71 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how