Bill Text: WV SB560 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to confidentiality of Health Care Authority's rate-setting model

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-10 - Effective Date [SB560 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2011-SB560-Enrolled.html
ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

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Senate Bill No. 560

(Senator Stollings (By Request), original sponsor)

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[Passed March 12, 2011; in effect ninety days from passage.]

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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-29B-20a, relating to the rate-setting model utilized by the board being exempt from public disclosure; and providing when the options generated by the computer program are available to the public.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-29B-20a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 29B. HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY.
§16-29B-20a. Confidentiality of the rate-setting model.
Rate-setting models utilized by the authority and options generated by those models are exempt from public disclosure under the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-b of this code: Provided, That the options generated by the rate-setting models shall be subject to disclosure under the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-b of this code, following any decision by the board that utilizes the
rate-setting models.
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