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SJM108.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS - TAX DEDUCTION - Stating findings of the
Legislature and requesting that Congress enact federal legislation to
provide full deductibility from federal income taxes of health insurance
premiums for individuals, the self-employed and small groups.
03/07 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/08 Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
03/09 10th ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Title apvd - to House
03/10 House intro - 1st rdg - to Bus
03/28 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/29 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
04/03 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote - to Senate
04/04 To enrol - rpt enrol - Pres signed
04/05 Sp signed
04/06 To Secretary of State
SJM108
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 108
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
3 OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
4 REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, EACH
5 STATE LEGISLATURE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
6 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
7 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-fifth
8 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
9 WHEREAS, the Health Insurance Premiums Task Force was established to iden-
10 tify, explore and address causes for the alarming increase in the costs of
11 health insurance; and
12 WHEREAS, in the course of its examination the task force received exten-
13 sive information, data and testimony from consumers, employers and representa-
14 tives of the health care industry, including carriers, agents, pharmaceutical
15 manufacturers, pharmacists, hospitals, physicians and other health care
16 providers; and
17 WHEREAS, the task force found that federal and state reforms and mandates,
18 including those requiring guaranteed issue of insurance policies in the indi-
19 vidual and small group insurance markets, have created a segment of high risk
20 individuals who must be insured, causing the entire population, and particu-
21 larly the healthy, to pay much more for health insurance; and
22 WHEREAS, the task force further found that the dramatic increase in pre-
23 mium rates has driven expanding numbers of healthy individuals into the ranks
24 of the uninsured, resulting in even greater costs to insurers to provide
25 required coverage for the high risk unhealthy population, and greater costs to
26 the remaining insured population; and
27 WHEREAS, the task force also determined that costs to provide health care
28 and treatment for uninsured individuals is another significant factor in the
29 high cost of health insurance; and
30 WHEREAS, the task force concluded that among other possible solutions,
31 providing full deductibility from federal income taxes of health insurance
32 premiums for individuals, the self-employed and small employers would bring
33 the healthy back into the insured market, lower costs to employers who must
34 provide coverage, reduce the uninsured population, and restore a balance of
35 risk in the market that will make health insurance more affordable and acces-
36 sible.
37 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
38 sion of the Fifty-fifth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Repre-
39 sentatives concurring therein, that federal legislation be enacted providing
40 full deductibility from federal income taxes of health insurance premiums for
41 individuals, the self-employed and small groups.
42 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
43 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this memorial to the Pres-
44 ident and Vice President of the United States, the President of the Senate and
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1 the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, the congressional
2 delegation representing the state of Idaho in the Congress of the United
3 States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Represen-
4 tatives of each State Legislature, and to the presidential candidates.