State Implementation Planning

Federal Documents

• U.S. Senate Bill 248
  
  

Other States' Documents

• Maine Governor Executive Order
  Maine Gov. John Baldacci's Executive Order creating the Health Reform Implementation Steering Committee.
  
  
• Maine Healthcare Committee
  Maine's Joint Select Committee on Health Care Reform Opportunities website
  
  
• Maine Order Establishing Healthcare Committee PDF
  Joint order establishing Maine's Joint Select Committee on Health Care Reform Opportunities, a group of legislators responsible for studying the health reform legislation and overseeing the state's implementation of it.
  
  
• NCSL: State Legislation Challenging Certain Health Reforms
  NCSL Report on what states are challenging the reforms in the new healthcare law.
  
  
• Utah HB 67 PDF
  Legislation passed by Utah to prohibit state agencies from implementing any provision of the federal health care reform without reporting certain information to that state's Legislature.
  
  

Other Documents

• Healthcare Reform Implementation Priorities PDF
  National Academy for State Health Policy: State Policymakers' Priorities for Successful Implementation of Health Reform.
  
  
• NASHP's health reform forum
  National Academy for State Health Policy's web forum where states can post and share their health reform-related legislation, fiscal analyses, and planning documents
  
  
• NCSL 2011 Checklist PDF
  List of health reform provisions state must implement in 2011 and issues states should begin addressing
  
  
• NCSL Slides on 2011 Timeline PPT
  National Conference of State Legislatures presentation on provisions of the health reform law that states must implement in 2011
  
  
• NCSL: State Implementation Actions
  Describes states' legislation and other steps taken to implement federal health reform