HB 2237 - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

      Imposes a tax equal to state medicaid receipts multiplied by the rate of twenty percent on every hospital.

      Provides that the act is temporary.

      Directs the department of social and health services to consider designated components in providing disproportionate share hospital adjustments.

      Makes an appropriation of one hundred sixty-six million five hundred ninety-seven thousand dollars to carry out the purposes of the act.