Lenexa Chamber of Commerce: Governmental Affairs -- Updates and Alerts

STATE LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP AVAILABLE

The 2011 state legislative session in Topeka has concluded, and legislators considered many bills that could impact your business or family. These bills include changes to workers compensation, unemployment compensation, taxes, and education. For a summary of the Chamber's legislative agenda and the outcome of key bills affecting those issues, click here.

Questions? Call Ashley Sherard, Vice President of Legislative Affairs at 913-888-1414 or email asherard@lenexa.org.

LOOKING FOR FACTS IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE?

Confused and looking to cut through some of the noise surrounding the
federal health care reform debate?

The Kaiser Family Foundation**, a non-profit and non-partisan research organization that focuses on providing facts and analyses relating to health policy, has produced a detailed side-by-side comparison of the current federal health care proposals.

You can print out a side-by-side comparison of all proposals and topics, or you can select comparisons on just the topics (such as "employer
requirements" or "premium subsidies to employers") and committees/authors in which you are interested at http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm.

You can also find a summarized side-by-side comparison of the provisions
approved by the three House committees and one Senate committee at
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/healthreform_tri_full.pdf. PLEASE
NOTE that one Senate committee has not yet completed its work, and neither the full House nor Senate is scheduled to debate or vote on any health care proposal until at least the fall!

Questions? Contact Ashley Sherard, V.P. of Legislative Affairs,
913-888-1414 or at asherard@lenexa.org.