South Carolina House Bill 4095 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-10)
Status: Introduced on May 2 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-05-29 - Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Hiott, Limehouse, Hixon, Owens, Hardwick, Erickson, Hardee, Pitts
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establish Within The Department Of Health And Human Services The Responsible Consumer Health Care Program, Which Provides Health Care To Low-income, Uninsured South Carolinians Through Managed Care Plans And Medical Spending Accounts; To Establish Program Eligibility Requirements; To Specify Health Care Services That The Managed Care Organization Must Provide, Including Preventive Health Services, Certain Functions It Must Perform, And Standards With Which It Must Comply; To Provide That An Individual Is Entitled To Five Hundred Dollars In Preventive Services At No Cost; To Require The Managed Care Organization To Provide Monthly Statements, Explanation Of Benefits, And Account Balances; To Provide That Individuals, Their Employers, And Charitable Organizations May Contribute To An Individual's Medical Spending Account And That The Managed Care Organization Also May Contribute To The Account If The Contribution Is An Incentive For Individuals To Engage In Certain Healthy Behaviors; To Provide That Contributions To A Medical Spending Account, Other Than Those Made By The State, Belong To The Individual And That Such Funds Roll Over To The Next Program Period; To Establish The Responsible Consumer Health Care Fund Into Which Medicaid Expansion Funds, Among Other Funds, Must Be Deposited To Carry Out The Provisions Of This Act; To Provide That The Implementation Of This Program Is Conditioned Upon The Receipt Of Sufficient Funds; To Prohibit Obligating The State To Financial Participation Beyond The Level Of Funds Anticipated To Be Available; To Require The Department To Submit Medicaid Plan Amendments And Federal Waivers Necessary To Obtain Federal Approval To Carry Out The Provisions Of This Article; To Provide That Funds From The Medicaid Reserve Fund Must Be Used For The 2014 Administration Of The Responsible Consumer Health Care Program; And To Provide That Beginning In 2015 Through 2016 The State Must Not Participate In Disproportionate Share Hospital Funds And To Provide Alternative Uses For The Hospital License Tax.

Truth in Health Financing and Responsible Consumer Health Care Act

Rep. Kristopher Crawford [R]	Rep. Leola Robinson-Simpson [D]	Sen. Maymia McLeod [D]	Rep. Lester Branham [D]
Rep. Joseph McEachern [D]	Rep. MaryGail Douglas [D]	Rep. Beth Bernstein [D]	Rep. David Mack [D]
Rep. Leonidas Stavrinakis [D]	Rep. William Clyburn [D]	Sen. Ronnie Sabb [D]	Rep. Joseph Jefferson [D]
Rep. Anne Parks [D]	Rep. Wendell Gilliard [D]	Rep. Jimmy Bales [D]	Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter [D]
Rep. Harry Ott [D]	Rep. Robert Williams [D]	Rep. Elizabeth Munnerlyn [D]	Rep. Edward Southard [R]
Rep. Jenny Horne [R]	Rep. Mandy Norrell [D]	Rep. John King [D]	Rep. Norman Brannon [R]
Rep. B.R. Skelton [R]	Rep. Joseph Neal [D]	Rep. Lonnie Hosey [D]	Rep. Michael Anthony [D]
Rep. Terry Alexander [D]	Rep. Carl Anderson [D]	Rep. Bruce Bannister [R]	Rep. Liston Barfield [R]
Rep. William Bowers [D]	Rep. Grady Brown [D]	Rep. Robert Brown [D]	Rep. Chandra Dillard [D]
Rep. Tracy Edge [R]	Rep. Laurie Funderburk [D]	Rep. Craig Gagnon [R]	Sen. Michael Gambrell [R]
Rep. Wayne George [D]	Rep. Kenneth Hodges [D]	Rep. Leon Howard [D]	Rep. Walton McLeod [D]
Rep. Harold Mitchell [D]	Rep. Robert Ridgeway [D]	Rep. Todd Rutherford [D]	Rep. James Smith [D]
Rep. Ted Vick [D]	Rep. Jackson Whipper [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-29	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Hiott, Limehouse, Hixon, Owens, Hardwick, Erickson, Hardee, Pitts
2013-05-28	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Atwater, Sandifer
2013-05-23	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Daning, Merrill, Taylor
2013-05-22	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Spires
2013-05-21	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: J.R.Smith, Rivers, Huggins, Bowen
2013-05-16	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Burns, Long, Whitmire
2013-05-15	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Sottile
2013-05-14	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Herbkersman, Norman, Toole
2013-05-02	House	Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2013-05-02	House	Introduced and read first time

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4095&session=120&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/prever/4095_20130502.htm