Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1164

2E Modifying the governance structure of the Minnesota comprehensive health
association; eliminating membership in MCHA and member assessments; modifying
the membership of the board of directors and eliminating certain powers of the
association; conforming state income tax provisions relating to health savings
accounts to changes under the federal medicare prescription drug, improvement
and modernization act of 2003; increasing the tax rates and imposing a floor
stocks tax on cigarettes; providing a health insurance exemption from the
insurance premiums tax; appropriating money to the commissioner of commerce to
offset the deficit in the MCHA program, requiring commissioner inclusion of
deficit estimates in budget requests beginning in a certain future biennium;
repealing the MCHA member assessment; sunsetting certain provisions upon
certification to the legislature by the commissioner of finance of the
insufficiency of the revenue produced by the increase in the cigarette tax to
offset the deficit in the MCHA program
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