Montana State Legislature
2011-2012 Economic Affairs Interim Committee
The Economic Affairs Interim Committee (EAIC) is a joint bipartisan committee of the Montana Legislature that meets during the interims between legislative sessions. It conducts interim studies and generally reviews issues related to economic development. It also monitors the programs and functions of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor and Industry, and Livestock, as well as the Office of the State Auditor and Insurance Commissioner and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.
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- Agency Bill Draft Requests - Summary
-- Department of Agriculture
-- Department of Commerce
-- Department of Labor and Industry Bill Summary
-- Department of Livestock
-- Governor's Office of Economic Development
-- Montana State Fund
-- State Auditor's Office Bill Summary - HB 142 Reports Tally and Statutory References
- Livestock Loss Program
- Noxious Weed Report Abstract
- Wood Products, Research & Commercialization
- Federal Land Management Reviews
- Quality Schools Grants, Veterans Home Loans, Fact Sheet
- Montana Heritage Commission report
- State Tribal Economic Development Cmsn
- Unemployment Insurance Data for certain employees
- Licensing Boards Report Update, Coal Jobs Update
- DLI report update - HB 525 Draft Report - Appendices 1, 2 - Bill draft LC 352 or LCbrds
- Submissions: denturists - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, dental hygienists - Montana State Fund report
- HJR 33 Draft Report, Figure 1
- Follow-up Reports on Medical Licensing
- NCCI Review of Firefighter Presumptive Disease, email, costs
- Rule Review
- Possible Committee Bills: LCmalp, LCbnfi (LC351), LCvlfr (LC353)
- Agenda
Subcommittee on Rural Volunteer Firefighter Work Comp
The Economic Affairs Interim Committee decided at its January 2012 meeting to have a subcommittee of Sen. Tom Facey to examine rural volunteer firefighters' workers compensation coverage. Sen. Facey met with stakeholders who worked on a bill for the 2013 session.
Final Report -Included in Economic Affairs Final Report
Meeting Schedule and Meeting Materials
All audio and video for these meetings is available in the Legislative Audio and Video Archives.
March 23, 2012
Following the Education and Local Government Committee meeting (about 2:30 p.m.)
-- Agenda
-- Yellowstone County mill levies for firefighting in various areas
-- State map for legal entities fighting structure fires
-- Description of firefighting entities by Harold Blattie, MACO
-- Overview of volunteer firefighting issues - staff report
-- Montana State Fund review of questions for vol. firefighters
-- DNRC Cooperative Equipment Agreement, contract, legal memo
June 12, 2012, Room 172
Following the Economic Affairs Interim Committee meeting (about 2 p.m.)
-- Agenda
-- NCCI
information on volunteer firefighters
-- Bill Draft Options
June 18, 2012, Room 102, 4 p.m.
Informal conversation to review bill draft options. Public is invited.
Sept. 5, 2012, Room 137, 3:30 p.m.
-- Agenda
-- Revised Bill Draft LCvlfr - Comments
Sept. 11, 2012, Room 137, Economic Affairs Full Committee
- Primary Health Care See MT Health Workforce link, memo, letter,
-- Kris Juliar report, Larry White report - Medical Licensing Concerns - background & report from 4/2012
--Montana Medical Association comments - HB 525 Licensing Board Reviews - Board Questions - Tally
-- Board of Psychologists Background, Survey Comments
-- Comments from: Denturists, Kimmet - HJR 33 Related Panel -- Insurer issue paper
-- HJR 33 Draft Report - State Auditor review of Montana State Fund actuarial report
- Board of Livestock on horseracing: background, financials
- HB 142 Reviews of Reports, Bill Draft
- Presumptive Illness for Firefighters, 2010 report & handout
- NCCI on Volunteer Firefighters
- Rule Review
- HB 525 Licensing Board Reviews - Board Questions - Tally
-- Electrical Board Background, Survey Responses
-- Board of Professional Engineers/Professional Land Surveyors
----PE/PLS Background, Survey Responses
-- Board of Plumbers Background, Survey Responses
-- Review of Board of Hearing Aid Dispensers - Agency Monitoring
-- State Auditor's Office Background, Reports 1, 2, 3, 4
__ Handout (2 slides require Windows Media Player)
__ Billings Clinic Letter on delivery system reform
-- Board of Horseracing Update, Legal Opinion
-- Building Codes Bureau, Elevator & Boiler Program Budgets
-- Medical Licensing Concerns, Board response - HJR 33 Study: Insurance Exchanges
-- Montana Health CO-OP
-- Petitions Against Affordable Care Act, Kriegle comment - HB 142 Reviews:
-- Advisory Council: Continuing Education-Insurance Licensees
-- Advisory Council on Risk Management Activities - Rule Review
- Rule Review
- Workers' Compensation Discussions on Safety - State Info 1, 2
-- Report on State Agencies, Legal Opinion on Credits, Charts
-- Response from Montana State Fund sent 2/8, Chart - Workers' Compensation HB 334 Review - Marsh report
- HB 525 Licensing Board Reviews - Board Questions - Tally
-- Board of Nursing Background, Partial Survey Responses
-- Board of Public Accountants Background, Survey Responses
-- Board of Outfitters Background, Survey Responses
-- Board of Optometry Background, Survey Responses
-- Further Review: Boards of Dentistry, Funeral Service
----Dentists: Dental Assn. letters 1 &2
----Denturist 1 & 2 emails
----Dental Hygienists letters 1, 2, 3, 4, and packet
---- Funeral Service: briefing paper; complaint email
-- Unlicensed Practice Panel - Giese, Kimmet - Volunteer Firefighter - Work Comp Briefing Paper
- HB 142 Reviews - Noxious Weed Management Adv. Cncil
-- Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage Advisory Council
-- Organic Commodity Advisory Council - Agency Monitoring - Employment Relations Division handout
- Final Work Plan.
- Rule Review
- Rail Service Competition Council briefing paper
- HB 525 Licensing Board Reviews - Board Questions
-- Board of Hearing Aid Dispensers, Survey Summary
-- Board of Nursing Home Administrators, Survey Summary
-- Board of Medical Examiners, Survey Summary
-- Board of Funeral Service, Survey Summary. Comments 1, 2, 3
-- Public Comment on Licensing Boards - Kimmet - HJR 33 Health Insurance Exchange
-- News Release from State Auditor on Stakeholder Meetings
-- Information on State Partnership Options from DHHS - Monitoring Activities
Agriculture Development Council Briefing Paper
Governor's Office of Economic Development presentation, report
Department of Labor and Industry Briefing Paper
-- Workers' Compensation Updates: HB 334, Utilization-Treatment
-- Workforce Services:
---- Apprenticeship Report, CSG Info, Job Service Map
-- Unemployment Insurance:
---- Types, Q&A slides, Q&A, UI Trust Fund, Reimbursable Update
-- Board of Personnel Appeals Briefing Paper
Department of Commerce Briefing Paper, Small Biz Credit Initiative
-- Board of Investments Report, Briefing Paper, 10-5 Report
-- Tourism Advisory Council Briefing Paper
-- Economic Development Advisory Council Paper, Report
- Revised Work Plan
- HJR 33 Health Insurance Exchange and Health Reform
-- Request to Federal Health Officials on Exchange - Response
-- Questions, Options for Montana Approach
-- Sample Eligibility Pathway for Medicaid/Insurance Exchange
-- Memo on Executive Order Not Being Feasible
-- Medicaid Eligibility Groups
-- Memo on Montana Insurance Rate Review - HB 525 Licensing Board Reviews - Board Questions
-- Board of Pharmacy, Response, Survey Summary
-- Board of Dentistry, Response, Survey Summary, Comments 1, 2, 3
-- Board of Chiropractors, Response, Survey Summary
-- Board of Veterinary Medicine, Response, Survey Summary
-- Public Comment on Licensing Boards - Pyburn
- Department of Agriculture Briefing Paper
-- Noxious Weed Summit Advisory Council
-- Noxious Weed Management Advisory Council - Department of Livestock Briefing Paper, DSA map
-- Board of Horseracing
-- Board of Milk Control
-- Livestock Loss Board
- Draft Work Plan, Addendum
- HB 525 Licensing Board Study Study Plan, Budget Brief, Budgets
- HJR 33 Health Insurance Exchange Study Plan, State Stats
- SJR 15 Agriculture Commodities Study Plan
* Review of Other States' Commodity Funds
* Chart Comparing Key Commodity Fund Factors - State Auditor's Office Health Insurance Exchange Review
- Business Standards Division Review: Licensing Boards, HB 525 plan
- Montana State Fund Handouts: HB 334 Impacts, Review, Summary
- Montana University System Handout - part of public comment
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As part of this study the Economic Affairs Committee heard from board members of one-half of the licensing boards to determine if the boards continue to serve a public purpose and meet criteria listed in HB 525. The Economic Affairs Committee also asked board members to review restraint of trade and unlicensed practice concerns related to SB 165. As part of the study, any licensee of a professional or occupational licensing board or any member of the public was invited to participate in a survey related to professional and occupational licensing. The survey ran from July 2011 to October 2014. FINAL REPORT: Licensed to Bill REPORT by Business Standards Division to Governor, 2012-2013
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Committee Handouts
- HJR 33 Bill. Draft Study Plan. Draft final report
- Multi-State Exchange Approaches June 2011
- Sample Eligibility Determination Flow Chart
- Letters to, From Federal Officials Re Exchange
- Final Report
- Work Plan
Other Information
- State Auditor's Office Stakeholder Meeting Feb. 2012
- March 12, 2012, DHHS rules for exchanges
- Federal Register for Medicaid eligibility under PPACA
- Rules related to risk reinsurance, risk corridors
- Rules for student health insurance
- Rules for early retiree reinsurance program
- Insurance cost estimates for Affordable Care Act
- Americans for Prosperity petition against Affordable Care Act
Federal Rule
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HB 142, enacted in the 2011 session, requires each interim committee to review all statutorily established advisory councils and statutorily required reports of the committee's assigned agencies. Under these provisions, the Economic Affairs Committee must make recommendations to the next legislature on the retention or elimination of any advisory council or required report. Statutory Advisory Councils
Statutorily Required Reports
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- Final Committee Report: From Horseracing to Firefighting
- HJR 33 Report: Considering a Health Insurance Exchange
- Revised Final Work Plan
- Final Report on Economic Affairs Committee Activities
- Final Report on HJR 33 Study of Health Insurance Exchanges
- Review of Board of Funeral Service Concerns
- Rural Volunteer Firefighters and Work Comp
The Economic Affairs Committee proposed the following as committee bills:
- LC 351 - to include financial institution monitoring in the EAIC interim duties
- LC 352 - to terminate at the end of 2014 licensing board required reviews
- LC 353 - to require workers' compensation coverage of volunteer firefighters and to provide a funding mechanism.
Discussion on these bill drafts is available from the video minutes of the Sept. 11, 2012, meeting.
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The Legislature, including the Economic Affairs Interim Committee, plays a significant role in the administrative rulemaking process and is authorized to review administrative rules for compliance with the Montana Administrative Procedure Act, also known as MAPA. More information about the rule review process, the EAIC's role and responsibilities, objections to administrative rules, and rules currently proposed by the three agencies under the EQC's purview is available by clicking on the links above. Contact Bart Campbell at bacampbell@mt.gov for more information on administrative rule review by the EAIC. The Economic Affairs Committee conducts rule reviews of the following agencies:
Administrative rules are published in the Administrative Rules of Montana (ARM), which is updated twice a month by the Montana Administrative Register (MAR). The MAR contains rulemaking notices regarding proposed new, amended, or repealed rules. The MAR also contains notices of adopted rules, recently issued attorney general's opinions, and notices of vacancies on state boards. The ARM and MAR are maintained by the Secretary of State's office and may be accessed at the following website: http://www.mtrules.org/. For more on Administrative Rule Review click here. Role of the Economic Affairs Committee The legislature, including the Economic Affairs Committee, plays a significant role in the administrative rulemaking process and is authorized to review administrative rules for compliance with MAPA. As part of this process, legal staff for the Economic Affairs Committee notifies the Committee of proposed, amended, or repealed administrative rules and of any concerns regarding the rulemaking process. See the chart below for notifications in the 2011-2012 interim and click here for actions that the Economic Affairs Committee may take in response to proposed rules. If the Economic Affairs Committee elects to object to a proposed administrative rule, there is a process to follow, described here.
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