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Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Require the Office of Employee Health and Benefits To Report on Its Demonstration Project To Provide Access to Fitness Programs for State Employees’
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Report on demonstration project. Resolved: That the Executive Director of the Office of Employee Health and Benefits within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services shall provide a report on the demonstration project to provide access to fitness programs for state employees. In preparing the report, the executive director shall submit information on the demonstration project, including, but not limited to, the number of participating state employees, the number and location of participating fitness centers, the types of fitness services used and the number of visits to fitness centers by state employees and the financial impact on the group health plan. The executive director shall submit the report to the Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services no later than February 1, 2010. The Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services is authorized to submit legislation concerning the report to the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment replaces the resolve and changes the title. The amendment requires the Executive Director of the Office of Employee Health and Benefits within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to report on the demonstration project to provide access to fitness programs for state employees. The amendment requires the report to provide information on the number of participating state employees, the number and location of participating fitness centers, the types of fitness services used and the number of visits to fitness centers by state employees and the financial impact on the group health plan. The report must be submitted no later than February 1, 2010. The amendment also authorizes the Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services to submit legislation concerning the report to the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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