Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky SJR130: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department of Employee Insurance in the Personnel Cabinet to study and report to the Legislative Research Commission on employer and employee cost-sharing trends, health insurance expenditures and trends, health plan governance models, and administrative processes and costs associated with the Kentucky Employees' Health Plan and other state employee plans across the country.
Status: In committee, February 27, 2026
Direct the Department of Employee Insurance to study and report to the Legislative Research Commission on employer and employee cost sharing trends, health insurance expenditures and trends, health plan governance models, and administrative processes and costs associated with the Kentucky Employees' Health Plan and other state employee plans across the country; require the department to provide the report and a survey of other state employee health plans to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2027.
What the bill says
A joint resolution directing the Department of Employee Insurance in the Personnel Cabinet to study and report to the Legislative Research Commission on employer and employee cost-sharing trends, health insurance expenditures and trends, health plan governance models, and administrative processes and costs associated with the Kentucky Employees' Health Plan and other state employee plans across the country.
From the introduced text:
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department of Employee Insurance in the Personnel Cabinet to study and report to the Legislative Research Commission on employer and employee cost-sharing trends, health insurance expenditures and trends, health plan governance models, and administrative processes and costs associated with the Kentucky Employees' Health Plan and other state employee plans across the country. WHEREAS, the Kentucky Employees' Health Plan (KEHP) provides health benefits to nearly 300,000 current and former public employees and dependents; and WHEREAS, KEHP expenditures for providing health benefits to current and former public employees have increased from $1.6 billion in plan year 2019 to $2 billion in plan year 2023, and are on track to exceed $2.5 billion in plan year 2025; and WHEREAS, increases in KEHP health benefit expenditures are anticipated to significantly outpace budgetary growth due to a 24 percent increase in premium costs over the next budget biennium; and WHEREAS, the majority of the KEHP health expenditures and increases in historical expenditures are funded by state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly; and WHEREAS, national health expenditures are expected to outpace GDP growth over the next 10 years, resulting in over 20.3 percent of GDP in 2033, and is an issue facing all employers, including state governments across the nation; and WHEREAS, studying the data and trends in the …