P - Present
Roll Call
OTHERS PRESENT: See Original Minutes
The meeting was called to order by Chair Peterson (combined Bill Hearing with the Senate State
Affairs Committee)
(Testimony was taken simultaneously for SB 1 and SB 2)
SB 1: revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2004 to make an
appropriation for a risk pool and a risk pool reserve for health insurance purposes and
to declare an emergency.
SB 2: establish a risk pool to provide health insurance coverage to eligible persons
and to declare an emergency.
Chair Peterson adjourned the combined meeting to reconvene as the House State Affairs Committee
at 4:15 p.m.
Rhonda Purkapile
E - Excused
A - Absent
P Frost
P Garnos
P Hanson
P Hargens
P Hunhoff
P Madsen
P Michels
P Nesselhuf
P Olson (Mel)
P Teupel
P Wick
P Rhoden, Vice-Chair
P Peterson (Bill), Chair
Presented by: Deb Bowman, Governor's Office (Document #1)
Randy Moses, Division of Insurance
Proponents: Jeremiah Murphy, Avera Health
Janet Griffin, Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Lorin Pankratz, Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System
Senator Marguerite Kleven (Documents #2, #3, and #11)
Mike Shaw, American Family Insurance Group
Scott Zajic, Fortis Health
Darla Pollman-Rogers, NAIFA-SD
Jerry Wheeler, SD Retailers Assn. (Document #4)
David Owen, SD Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Representative Thomas Hennies (Document #5)
Representative Mike Buckingham (Document #6)
Representative Stanford Adelstein (Documents #7, #8, and #9)
Dean Krogman, SD State Medical Assn. (Document #10)
John Brown, SD Pharmacists Association
Dick Howard, SD Assn of County Commissioners
Representative Casey Murschel
Senator Dave Knudson (Documents #15 and #16)
Senator Ed Olson (Document #17)
Opponents: Larry Nelson, American Insurance Group (Documents #12, #13, and #14)
HB 1001: permit additional rate flexibility to carriers that actively market certain
individual health insurance policies in this state.
Presented by: Deb Bowman, Governor's Office
Randy Moses, Division of Insurance
Proponents: Mike Shaw, American Family Insurance Group
Scott Zajic, Fortis Health
Janet Griffin, Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
HB 1002: appropriate funds for the implementation and operation of a risk pool to
provide health insurance for certain eligible persons, to create a risk pool reserve
fund, to appropriate funds for the reserve fund, and to declare an emergency.
Presented by: Representative Claire Konold
Opponents: Jason Dilges, Bureau of Finance and Management
Committee Secretary
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