BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 6159: Public hospitals

Strengthening public hospitals.

Summary

Establishes an annual coverage assessment of $0.75 per coverage month on insurers and other businesses subject to the insurance premium tax with initial assessments due and payable in 2027.
Creates a Public Hospital Infrastructure Account, where all revenues collected from the annual coverage assessments must be deposited and expenditures from this account may be used only for providing funding assistance to public district hospitals, or any publicly owned or operated health care entity undertaking a major new construction or modernization project.
Provides f inancing for public hospital districts using the Public Hospital Infrastructure Account up to a maximum of 20 percent of the approved project's cost.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 6159), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to strengthening public hospitals;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 6159 (2023–24) Superintendent/task forces · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6159 (2019–20) Controlled substances · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6159 (2017–18) Ugrd storage tank prg reauth · Enacted · Chapter 194, Laws of 2018
SB 6159 (2015–16) Counties/independent counsel · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6159 (2013–14) Alcohol regulation · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 6159 (2011–12) Dispute resolution/B&O tax · Enacted with partial veto · Chapter 249, Laws of 2012
SB 6159 (2009–10) Taxation of moist snuff · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6159 (2007–08) Natural resources T.O. · Did not pass · died in committee