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House Journal: Page 1897: Wednesday, April 24, 1996

	$  1,076,131
	FTEs          20.00
5.  INSURANCE DIVISION
For salaries, support, maintenance, miscellaneous purposes, and
for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:  

	$  3,013,049
	FTEs          91.50
Of the amounts appropriated in this section to the insurance
division, not more than $100,000 shall be used for the
regulation of health insurance purchasing cooperatives.
The insurance division shall monitor public utilization of the
coverages identified in chapter 514C under managed care plans in
this state.
The insurance division may reallocate authorized full-time
equivalent positions as necessary to respond to accreditation
recommendations or requirements.  The insurance division
expenditures for examination purposes may exceed the projected
receipts, refunds and reimbursements, estimated pursuant to
section 505.7, subsection 7, including the expenditures for
retention of additional personnel, if the expenditures are fully
reimburseable and the division first does both of the following:
a.  Notifies the department of management, legislative fiscal
bureau, and the legislative fiscal committee of the need for the
expenditures.
b.  Files with each of the entities named in paragraph "a" the
legislative and regulatory justification for the expenditures,
along with an estimate of the expenditures.
6.  PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AND REGULATION DIVISION
For salaries, support, maintenance, miscellaneous purposes, and
for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:  

	$    923,357
	FTEs         14.00
7.  UTILITIES DIVISION
For salaries, support, maintenance, miscellaneous purposes, and
for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:  

	$  5,227,076
	FTEs          79.00
The utilities division may expend additional funds, including
funds for additional personnel, if those additional expenditures
are actual expenses which exceed the funds budgeted for utility
regulation.  Before the division expends or encumbers an amount
in excess of the funds budgeted for regulation, the director of
the department of management shall approve the expenditure or
encumbrance.  Before approval is given, the director of the
department of management shall determine that the regulation
expenses exceed the funds budgeted by the general assembly to
the division and that the division does not have other funds
from which regulation expenses can be paid.  Upon approval of
the director of the department

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Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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