PRINTER'S NO. 679
No. 613 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, BELFANTI, LEVDANSKY, CALTAGIRONE, CURRY,
DALEY, DeLUCA, FABRIZIO, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GRUCELA,
JAMES, JOSEPHS, KULA, LEACH, MAHONEY, MANDERINO, McGEEHAN,
MELIO, MUNDY, M. O'BRIEN, PETRONE, SOLOBAY, TANGRETTI, WALKO,
WATERS, WHEATLEY AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 6, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
MARCH 6, 2007
AN ACT
1 Providing for a public health access program beneficiary
2 employer report; and imposing duties on the Secretary of
3 Health.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Definitions.
7 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
8 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
9 context clearly indicates otherwise:
10 "Public health access program beneficiary." A person who
11 receives medical assistance or medical benefits or a person who
12 receives health care services that qualify as free care.
13 Section 2. Public health access program beneficiary employer
14 report.
15 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the Secretary of
16 Health shall annually prepare a public health access program
1 beneficiary employer report.
2 Section 3. Report information.
3 (a) General rule.--The report shall provide the following
4 information for each employer of 50 or more public health access
5 beneficiaries:
6 (1) The name and address of the employer.
7 (2) The number of public health access program
8 beneficiaries who are employees of the employer.
9 (3) The number of public health access program
10 beneficiaries who are spouses or dependents of employees of
11 the employer.
12 (4) Whether the employer offers health benefits to its
13 employees.
14 (5) The cost to the Commonwealth of providing public
15 health access program benefits for their employees and
16 enrolled dependents.
17 (b) Exceptions.--The report shall not include the names of
18 any individual public health access program beneficiaries and
19 shall be subject to privacy standards.
20 Section 4. Annual report.
21 The report shall be submitted annually on February 1 to the
22 President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
23 Representatives and the chair of the Public Health and Welfare
24 Committee of the Senate and the chair of the Health and Human
25 Services Committee of the House of Representatives.
26 Section 5. Effective date.
27 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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