119 Relating to: review of proposed changes to public employee group health insurance programs.

  Date of enactment: December 16, 2015
2015 Assembly Bill 394   Date of publication*: December 17, 2015

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2015 WISCONSIN ACT 119

An Act to create 40.03 (6) (L) of the statutes; relating to: review of proposed changes to public employee group health insurance programs.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 40.03 (6) (L) of the statutes is created to read:

40.03 (6) (L) In consultation with the division of personnel management in the department of administration, shall notify the joint committee on finance that it intends to execute a contract to provide self-insured group health plans on a regional or statewide basis to state employees. The group insurance board may not execute the contract unless authorized under this paragraph. If the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance do not notify the group insurance board that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of approving the execution of the contract within 21 working days after the date of the group insurance board's notification, the group insurance board may execute the contract. If, within 21 working days after the date of the group insurance board's notification, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the group insurance board that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of approving the execution of the contract, the group insurance board may not execute the contract without the approval of the committee.