Insurance & Commerce - Senate

You know meeting is kind of go over a few house rules and clean up rules and and everybody doing at the animal go around let everyone know introduce themselves to us and how you're feeling and with the with our committee as well on the outside I will start off by a recognized my last chair the center Murdock. Glad to have him on board and look forward to working with him During their time frame here. Yes. You for you if you would like any for sale that members. Yes good morning I'm Senator Missy Irvin and I represent now district twenty four which is all of Stone County Searcy County Van Buren County with portions of Newton County and Cleburne County and then Faulkner County lots of Faulkner County suffer Conway and Mayflower I'm happy to be with you I've served on this committee for a long time. Yes. Hi Justin Boyd Senate district twenty seven which is Fort Smith more less plus if you're familiar with that all the Chaffee crossing and I was on insurance and commerce last time in the House. Clint Penzo district thirty one represent Springhill Johnson Tontitown Elm Springs up in northwest Arkansas and I was on insurance and commerce in the houses will. I Johnson Senate district seventeen I represent most of the rest of Faulkner County that Senator Irvin doesn't represent I have the city of Conway city Mayflower and are the rural area as well as west very far west end of little rock and the rest of western Pulaski County and I served on insurance and commerce two years ago and I'm glad to be back on this committee thank you Mr. Reginald Murdock I represent district nine which is East Arkansas the delta. Lee County St Francis all of creating an all the Phillips. A bill insurance and commerce seven terms I've been here seven times and every time I've been on insurance and commerce this is my second time as vice chair I was vice chair in the house for representative Collins he was a chair of some years ago so glad to be here been here before just had been on is the. And I'm Ricky Hill chairman representing not half of what county in the airforce base around the Jacksonville area in only looser styles who's responsible for keeping me straight and I wish him the best of luck I think it will be very difficult for them to do but will start at by Mr jail. Here we got to she will. And Alex Stevens or attorney weir's Alex that she here yeah she's not here to okay we'll thank you for that look forward to working with you all and we're going to have a good time if nothing else. The first the order of business do is Review an adopter Senate rules committee rules if you all had a chance to review those. Motion. Motion to pass second by Senator Irvin. All those in favor. Opposed. They're not that. The next room the. Review our fiscal impact procedures in this deal there's going to go over those with us and we'll have to adopt those at the end. Please enter your self your for the record. You Mr chair Jill there be of Legislative Research. And you should all have in front of you a copy of the procedures for use of the health benefits actuary these were adopted by the Legislative Council in October and just to give you a little bit of background regarding the fiscal impact statements the General Assembly passed act one twelve and twenty twenty two during the fiscal session and not act which you also have a copy of the impose the fifteen day bill filing deadline on any bills that impact health benefit plans for entities of the state and this includes pharmacy benefits entities of the state for these purposes is the EBT and State and Public School Life and Health Insurance program as well as the self funded plans by various institutions of higher education in this state. So as the Legislative Council also this past fall authorize the bureau to hire the Siegel group to perform the fiscal a bit at the fiscal impact statements that are also required backed one twelve. The process that set out here which under Act one twelve has to be adopted by this committee and to the House sent an insurance and commerce committee is that Siegel's going to monitor all the bills that are filed they'll identify a bill that they feel will require one of these fiscal impact statements and notify me. I will notify the chair of this committee if it is a bill filed here and and then the chair will check with the sponsor of the bill to determine whether the sponsor plans to move forward with the bill if so the chair will authorize Siegel to move forward with the fiscal impacts. Under the act the committees can not take up a bill that requires one of these fiscal impact until you have it back in front of you. Segal is located out of little rock but they plan to come here to present these fiscal impact statements to you and they can do that in person or via same if the committee decides how they that's how they would like to have that done and that's really the basics of of the process and the rest of it is set out there for you to see and I'll take any questions. Thank you Mister senator Johnson. Thank you Mr chairman. Jill I wanna make sure I heard this correctly or interpreted correctly. You can actually filed a bill to you at the fiscal impact statement. You had yes Sir you can the Committee cannot take the bill up and so we had it says the deadline is the twenty third that's next week yes and because you all took the four day recess that we just came back from that actually moves back to the twenty seventh will be that as it may be we have to move pretty quickly if we're looking at something like that so I guess my question is. Theoretically I file a bill tomorrow then that would trigger the the impact statement which is fine but it wouldn't let's see if we would it would would be okay if the impact statement was requested an in process as long as but the committee could not considered until it had received it but I'm I'm more look looking at the trigger date of this this hard deadline that's a hard deadline to introduce another bill not to continue forward something sorry being at off the school bus tracker bill filing deadline doesn't impact and the committee taking action the bill just tested them file by that date okay thank you thank you Mr. Any other questions for Mysteel Senator Irvin. Thank you Miss there if you will just go down here this state entities are I think that's important information. So. M. it's going to be E. B. D. who holds and it's all the public school employees all the state employees some of the and. Institutions of higher education I've also opted into coverage by the plan I don't have that list with me but I can get it for you and then it some of the institutions of higher that have their own self funded plans that we are working with to get data from include the university of Arkansas System the issue system and you see a there's a consortium of two year institutions that have a plan together M. and then I apologize there two or three other schools that I also have that list that I can get to this committee I don't have it in front of me. Okay at just and have they all signs the memorandums of understanding to allow us to have the data that single means in order to do what they need to do all of that in place not yet that is something that I'm still working on and I am working with institutions of higher education I have most of those completed and because of the change and the administration we have not yet finalized the MO you with EBT but I hope to have that done in the next couple of days okay. Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Seeing none we need a motion to adopt. By Senator Irvin the second by Senator Johnson all those in favor of say aye. Opposed same sign. Is adopted. Just a few of House house will build rules here are regulations whatever we want to call it please leave your agenda voters in the room do not leave with them and during session a committee will meet in this room. Agendas are being prepared two days before the committee meeting sponsor notifications will be sent to members who have bills on the agenda two days before the committee meetings Dr notices are sent by email. A quorum must be present to to start each meeting five committee members constitute a quorum is important members be on time to the meeting so the chair can see a quorum start the meeting. And to finish up today I'd like to go around the room and allow everyone to to do some sales who are affiliated with the. Insurance industry banking industry or whatever you're involved in that that makes makes you want to be here in the. And be with us and enjoy your sales will start over here on the left not just worker way around the ring. He or. Yeah. All. Arkansas were. All. Please try to speak up James we couldn't hear you appear. Yeah. Per person. Arkansas. One second yes Sir thousand call yep there anyway. It can be to do it sorry alkaline state insurance commissioner I've worked with most to you in some capacity appreciate the expertise you all bring to the to the to the Committee. It each year Mick meetings somebody for the insurance department to be here typically we don't have a bill that's being run we've got a couple couple of non controversial things that we'll be talking to you about if we're pushing a bill is supposed to be noncontroversial if you have to raise your hand to with much of a question then we will it it comes controversy I think so so don't look for anything controversial out of us we should be talking to you about some clean up stuff that does you know what at last count there is about twenty bills have been filed in one one side or the other already that our insurance related we'll try to have our subject matter experts available to support you in any way we can happy to to to sit at the table with you whether it's both rand or are any of other other staff that can that can can help with with some of the legalities the couple colleagues with me today or chief deputy Russ Galbreath and and chief information officer Jennifer Bruce will be among the group of us that are typically here you know trying to just be available to you in any way we can so that's that's typically our role and just to wish you a lot for a great session. Any questions for Mister Klein was here. You got off easy date. Thank you Sir. Mr. Hellerstein. The insurance agents Arkansas sometimes. Represent about three hundred twenty five. Thanks for all state. Thank you Sir. Marks out. Eight years ago the. Thank you Sir good so you might spend while. Arkansas state. Right. Just now. The number one. Thank you Sir. Anyone else have any comments or concerns they want to discuss today. Seeing none this meeting is adjourned at call up the chair for next one. So. Since.