HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4248 FILED ON: 11/2/2015
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3837
Section 77 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2015 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects (see House, No. 3829), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment E of House, No. 3838). November 2, 2015. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)
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An Act relative to applications for waivers of the patient protection and affordable care act.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to forthwith require the board of the commonwealth health insurance connector to report on applications for waivers of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the board of the commonwealth health insurance connector shall submit a report to the joint committee on health care financing and the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than 90 days prior to submitting an application and not less than 10 days after submitting an application under clause (x) of section 3 of chapter 176Q of the General Laws detailing the intent and proposed changes to the state plan and state laws.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect as of November 2, 2015.