Legislature(2013 - 2014)CAPITOL 106
02/11/2014 03:00 PM House HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
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Presentation: the Citizen Review Panel | |
Presentation: Key Coalition | |
Adjourn |
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HJR 20-MEDICAL DEVICE TAX 3:06:16 PM CHAIR HIGGINS announced that the first order of business would be HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 20, Urging the President of the United States and the United States Congress to repeal the excise tax on medical devices. 3:07:09 PM REPRESENTATIVE BOB LYNN, Alaska State Legislature, introduced HJR 20 as the prime sponsor of the bill and explained that the medical device tax was part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He questioned whether pacemakers, heart stents, artificial hips, and, he opined, some forms of birth control, should be required to pay an extra 2.3 percent tax. He declared that he was not in agreement with this, offering his opinion that most other people would not support this tax. He read: The medical device tax will substantially increase the already high cost of medical care by some $3.7 billion per year. That money, that tax, the cost of that will be passed down from the medical device developers to manufacturers to health care providers, and ultimately to consumers like us, and like every one of our constituents. The medical device tax takes direct aim at American innovation, by punishing researchers and high tech bio-medical manufacturers, which any one of us or our constituents may need some day. Why tax life saving devices? This tax is anti-business and this tax is bad for patients. This resolution sends a strong message to Congress and to the President to eliminate this tax. REPRESENTATIVE LYNN asked that the committee support passage of the proposed resolution. 3:09:15 PM CHAIR HIGGINS opened public testimony, and there being none, he closed public testimony. 3:09:55 PM REPRESENTATIVE TARR, directing attention to page 1, line 16, of the proposed resolution, which read: "Whereas thousands of layoffs in the United States have already occurred because of the medical device tax," asked for a specific number and if any Alaska businesses had been impacted by this excise tax. 3:10:34 PM NICK LEWIS, Staff, Representative Bob Lynn, Alaska State Legislature, in response to Representative Tarr, said "I don't have an answer to that right now." 3:10:48 PM REPRESENTATIVE KELLER moved to report HJR 20 out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal notes. There being no objection, it was so ordered.
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HJR020 Ver A.pdf |
HHSS 2/11/2014 3:00:00 PM |
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HJR 020 SPONSOR STATEMENT.pdf |
HHSS 2/11/2014 3:00:00 PM |
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HJR 020 SUPPORTING DOCUMENT Legislative Research Report HJR20 2013 14-133 with footer.pdf |
HHSS 2/11/2014 3:00:00 PM |
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1 Key 2014 PRIORITIES Book 2014 FINAL.pdf |
HHSS 2/11/2014 3:00:00 PM |
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CRP 2014 HSS Committee Presentation 02072014.pdf |
HHSS 2/11/2014 3:00:00 PM |