To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental appropriation for the state Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity in the current 2020-2021 fiscal year. This bill was replaced by substitute that uses it for an auto insurance reform revision, see House-passed version.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

To replace the original bill with provisions that use it for an auto insurance reform revision.

To increase the clinic grants to $30 million.

To revise procedural details and rules in the proposal.

To appropriate $10 million for grants to certain rehab clinics said to be aggrieved by fee caps in a 2019 auto insurance reform law.

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance as previously described.

To increase the appropriation from $10 million to $25 million.

To appropriate $25 million for grants to certain rehab clinics said to be aggrieved by fee caps in the 2019 auto insurance reform law. This law eliminated a requirement for all policies to include unlimited lifetime medical and personal care benefits for crash victims, which was said to generate of fraud and abuse, and was cited as a major reason for the state's very high insurance costs.

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, which increased the appropriation from $10 million to $25 million.