78Sth Legislative Session _ 2003

Committee: House State Affairs
Thursday, June 26, 2003

                                            P - Present
                                            E - Excused
                                            A - Absent

Roll Call
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

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.

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

Chair Peterson adjourned the combined meeting to reconvene as the House State Affairs Committee at 4:15 p.m.



Rhonda Purkapile

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Committee Secretary
Bill Peterson, Chair


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