Fair Share Health Care in West Virginia
What People are Saying
“The largest employer in the state doesn’t provide what most people feel is an adequate level of health care,” said Sen. Dan Foster, D-Kanawha and a physician, a co-sponsor of the bill …. “It increases the amount of uncompensated care, and that increases the costs for everybody.”
The Associated Press, 1/17/06
Critical Facts
- Wal-Mart employees: 11,666 (as of March 2006)
- Party Split of the Legislature:
House: 68 Democrats, 32 Republicans
Senate: 21 Democrats, 13 Republicans - Summary of House and Senate Bills: Legislation would require companies with more than 10,000 employees to spend an amount equal to at least 8% of employee wages for for-profits and 6% for non-profits.
- Title of House Bill: HB 4024—
Relating to the West Virginia Fair Share Health Care Act
- Status of House Bill: Introduced 1/6/06 and posted to committee
- House Sponsors
Rep. Bonnie Brown, 30th Dist., Dem
Rep. Mike Caputo, 43rd Dist., Dem
Rep. William G. Hartman, 37th Dist., Dem
Rep. Lindella Wilson Hrutkay, 19th Dist., Dem
- House Committee: Health and Human Resources
- Title of Senate Bill: SB 147--
Establishing West Virginia Fair Share Health Care Act
- Status of Senate Bill: Introduced 1/13/06 and posted to committee
- Senate Sponsors
Sen. Jon Blair Hunter, 14th Dist., Dem
Sen. Jeffrey V. Kessler, 2nd Dist., Dem
Sen. Tracy Dempsey, 7th Dist., Dem
Sen. Dan Foster, 8th and 17th Districts, Dem
Sen. Charles C. Lanham, 4th Dist., Rep.
Sen. Brooks McCabe, 8th and 17th Districts, Dem
Sen. Evan H Jenkins, 5th Dist., Dem
- Senate Committee: Labor
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