As introduced, the bill would provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental multidepartment appropriation for Fiscal Year 2012-2013. This bill originally containeed no appropriations, was amended as described below.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To adopt a version of the bill that contains actual appropriations.

To require the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs to "work to ensure that the privacy of individual citizens is protected in all aspects of the partnership exchange." Note: Since a federal version of this entity will be performing its actual insurance subsidy eligibility determinations and administration, a state department will have little more than an advisory role on these matters.

To require that the "navigators" authorized by the federal health care law to advise subsidy applicants and recipients about its extremely detailed regulations must undergo criminal and regulatory background screening.

To appropriate $30.5 million in federal grant money to set up a consumer assistance call center related to insurance subsidies provided by the federal health care law. The actual subsidy administration and eligibility determinations will be performed by a federal entity styled under the law as an "exchange" (in 2012 the legislature declined to create a state-run version of this entity). The money will also be used for state Medicaid system software upgrades required in part because of this law.